Gordon v. Doran
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, as the board of water commissioners of the city of St. Paul, from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county entered pursuant to the findings and order of Brill, J. A municipality which supplies its inhabitants with water does so in the capacity of a private corporation, and not in the exercise of the power of local sovereignty. 30 Am. & Eng. Enc. (2d Ed.) 404; 1 Dillon, Mun.
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Appeal by defendants, as the board of water commissioners of the city of St. Paul, from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county entered pursuant to the findings and order of Brill, J. A municipality which supplies its inhabitants with water does so in the capacity of a private corporation, and not in the exercise of the power of local sovereignty. 30 Am. & Eng. Enc. (2d Ed.) 404; 1 Dillon, Mun. Corp. §§ 27, 66-68, and cases; Wagner v. City, 146 Ill. 139; Appeal of Brumm, 12 Atl. (Pa.) 855; Bailey v. Mayor, 3 Hill, 531; Girard, v. City, 88 Pa. St. 394; Western v. City, 31 Pa. St.…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The petitioner and respondent established in its large building, used for wholesaling merchandise, an automatic sprinkling system, connected at its own expense with the water mains of defendants and appellants, the board of water commissioners of the city of St. Paul. At the top of the building was a tank filled with water, which maintained a pressure through the pipes in the building equal to the pressure in the mains. When the temperature at any place in the building would rise sufficiently to melt the metal coverings over small holes in the pipes of the sprinkling device, water escaped,…
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