Legal Opinion
King Manufacturing Co. v. City Council of Augusta
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 14, 1928No. 392PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a ’suit brought in a state court in Georgia to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance of the City of Augusta fixing rates for water power supplied' from a canal owned and maintained by the city. The plaintiff is a manufacturing company which operates a mill adjacent to the canal with water power supplied therefrom. The objection- urged against the ordinance is that it is repugnant to the contract clause of the Constitution of the United States, and therefore invalid, in that it impairs the obligation of a prior contract whereby the city undertook to supply water power for the…
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