Western Saving Fund Society v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal in Equity from the Court of Nisi Prius. This was a bill in equity between the same parties as the preceding case, setting forth substantially the same facts, and praying for an injunction to restrain the defendants from interfering with the management of the'Philadelphia Gas Works, under the provisions of an Act of Assembly passed the 20th April 1858 : Pamph. L. 347. The court below granted the injunction, from which an appeal was taken by the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
The bill of the complainants prays that the City of Philadelphia, and the Select and Common Councils thereof, may be restrained by the injunction of this court, from proceeding under the provisions of a certain Act of Assembly of this Commonwealth, passed on the 20th of April 1858, entitled “ A Supplement to the Act to incorporate the City of Philadelphia;” and from any attempt to invalidate the trusts now existing in the present Trustees of the Philadelphia Gas Works, or the security of the holders of the gas loans, or the system under which…
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