Pocatello Water Co. v. Standley
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Bannock County. The Pocatello Water Company, a corporation, was formed for tbe purpose of supplying the city of Pocatello and its inhabitants with pure and wholesome water. It received from said city a franchise to lay in the streets of said city main and lateral pipes in which to convey the water to the said city and the inhabitants thereof.
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APPEAL from District Court, Bannock County. The Pocatello Water Company, a corporation, was formed for tbe purpose of supplying the city of Pocatello and its inhabitants with pure and wholesome water. It received from said city a franchise to lay in the streets of said city main and lateral pipes in which to convey the water to the said city and the inhabitants thereof. The main and lateral pipes having been laid in the streets of the city for the purposes, were, by the action of the water company, dedicated to a public use. {Franks v. Paducah Water Supply Go., 88 Ky. 467, 11 S. W. 432, 718,.…
1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, J.
This action was brought by the respondent company against the appellant, who is by occupation a plumber, to enjoin and restrain him from in any manner tapping the mains and laterals of the respondent’s water system, or from in any manner interfering with or molesting its valves, cocks, shutoffs, or other property or appliances, or from approaching within such distance of its mains or laterals, by excavation or *158otherwise, as will subject the same to injury or damage by freezing or being broken by exposure. It is alleged in the complaint and admitted in the answer that respondent has been…
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