Sewickley Water Works Commissioners v. Sewickley Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 229, Oet. T., 1893, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Nov. T., 1892, No. 555, awarding injunction on bill in equity. Bill in equity for injunction. The bill averred that plaintiffs were a public corporation, incorporated by act of Feb. 21,1873, P. L. 147, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining water works to supply with water the inhabitants of the borough of Sewickley and adjoining townships.
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Appeal, No. 229, Oet. T., 1893, by-defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Nov. T., 1892, No. 555, awarding injunction on bill in equity. Bill in equity for injunction. The bill averred that plaintiffs were a public corporation, incorporated by act of Feb. 21,1873, P. L. 147, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining water works to supply with water the inhabitants of the borough of Sewickley and adjoining townships. That defendant, the borough of Sewickley, by its burgess and council, did, during the summer of 1891, through an employee of said defendant, i. e. the driver of a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Gbeen,
The defendant was incorporated as a borough in the yea,r 1853, under the general borough law of 1851, and of course possessed all the powers and authorities conferred upon such municipalities by the provisions of that law. Among these is the power, “ To regulate the roads, streets, lanes, alleys, common sewers, public squares, common grounds, foot walks, pavements, gutters, culverts and drains, and the heights, grades, widths, slopes and forms thereof, and they shall have all other needful jurisdiction over the same.”
“ To make such other regulations as may be…
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