Municipal Waterworks Co. v. City of Ft. Smith
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
At Law. Action by Municipal Waterworks Company against the City of Ft. Smith. Trial to court.
1Opinion of the Court
YOUMANS, District Judge.
This is a suit by plaintiff against defendant for the value of water alleged to have been furnished by the former to the latter from January 1, 1908, to April 5, 1911. It has been submitted to the court sitting as a jury. The subject-matter grows out of a suit begun prior to January 1/1908, and terminated in April, 1911, which the city of Ft. Smith instituted against the plaintiff to enforce an option to purchase the plant, reserved in the franchise granted by ordinance to plaintiff's predecessor, March 31, 1884, being Ordinance No. 35. That ordinance, with amendments…
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