Kimball v. North East Harbor Water Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In Equity. In equity. On report. Bill in equity brought by the plaintiff who was the owner of the Kimball House, a summer hotel at Northeast Harbor, wherein it was alleged, among other things, that the defendant water compauy and its superintendent had threatened to discontinue the supply of water for use in the operation of the elevator in said hotel unless certain changes were made in the method of applying the water, and praying for an injunction against their…
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In Equity. In equity. On report. Bill in equity brought by the plaintiff who was the owner of the Kimball House, a summer hotel at Northeast Harbor, wherein it was alleged, among other things, that the defendant water compauy and its superintendent had threatened to discontinue the supply of water for use in the operation of the elevator in said hotel unless certain changes were made in the method of applying the water, and praying for an injunction against their discontinuing the supply of water as threatened. The defendants filed an answer with a demurrer therein inserted, and the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
The Northeast Harbor Water Company was chartered by special act of the legislature in 1883 "for the purpose of supplying the village of Northeast Harbor in the town of Mount Desert in Hancock county and the vicinity of said village, with pure water for domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes,” and for said purposes was given the power to detain and take water from Hadlock Lower Pond in Mount Desert and from any streams flowing out of the same, Priv, L. 1883, c. 168. Under that charter a water system was constructed in 1884 and has been in operation since, supplying water now to about two…
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- Turner v. Revere Water Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Crosby v. City CouncilSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
- Watson v. Inhabitants of NeedhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- City of Erie v. Erie Gas & Mineral Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1908
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- Acheson v. JohnsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1952
- Catto v. PlantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1927
- Nord v. Butte Water Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1934
- Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. v. Oklahoma Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936
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