Defiance Water Co. v. Defiance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. On the fourth day of January, 1898, the city of Defiance, a municipal corporation of the State of Ohio, ’ by its solicitor, filed a bill in equity against the Council of the city of Defiance and the Defiance Waterworks Company, in the Court of Common Pleas of Defiance County, Ohio, praying that future payments under an alleged contract of August 17, 1887, between the Council of the City and…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. On the fourth day of January, 1898, the city of Defiance, a municipal corporation of the State of Ohio, ’ by its solicitor, filed a bill in equity against the Council of the city of Defiance and the Defiance Waterworks Company, in the Court of Common Pleas of Defiance County, Ohio, praying that future payments under an alleged contract of August 17, 1887, between the Council of the City and Bullock & Company, who had subsequently assigned it to the Water Company, for the furnishing of water to the city for…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after .making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The decree of the Circuit Court was based on the decree of the state Circuit Court, which had been reversed by the state Supreme Court, and various suggestions have been made by counsel in respect of the judgment which they think should be rendered here in view of the termination of the litigation in the state courts.
But the question of the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court meets us on the threshold, and the disposal of that question disposes of this appeal.
Diverse citizenship did not exist,…
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