Philadelphia v. Philadelphia Suburban Water Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

The Philadelphia Suburban Water Company, by resolution of its board of directors on October 25, 1927, sought to condemn and appropriate 10,000,000 gallons of water per day of the normal flow of Perkiomen Creek, the principal tributary of the Schuylkill River. On November 7, 1928, the City of Philadelphia filed a bill in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, averring that if the company be permitted to appropriate and divert any part of the flow of Perkiomen Creek, grave and substantial injury would result to the city and its inhabitants, inasmuch…