Legal Opinion
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Great Falls Power Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided October 1, 1925PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
*701For convenience the parties, plaintiff and defendants, will be designated here as they were in the court below.
The Great Falls Power Company is a corporation chartered by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 3, 1894. (Acts 1893-94, c. 605.)
The purposes for which it was chartered were:
“For the purpose of acquiring, holding, improving and using water power at and near the Great Falls, in the Potomac river, and for constructing dams therein, •canals and other hydraulic and auxiliary steam works, which acts are hereby authorized, and for the selling and leasing of water…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Southern Railway Co. v. KingSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. DeselmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Standard Stock Food Co. v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Rosenthal v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Coleman v. City of RichmondCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1988
- Willis v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1990
- Hannabass v. Maryland Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1938
- H. L. Carpel of Richmond, Inc. v. City of RichmondSupreme Court of Virginia · 1934
- Town of Morganton v. Hutton & Bourbonnais Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1960
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