Gray v. Council of Newark & the Newark Water & Electric Co.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Injunction Bill. The relators were residents and taxpayers of the town of Newark, and filed this bill for the purpose of restraining The Council of Newark from leasing to the Newark Water and Electric Company the light and water plants belonging to said town.
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Injunction Bill. The relators were residents and taxpayers of the town of Newark, and filed this bill for the purpose of restraining The Council of Newark from leasing to the Newark Water and Electric Company the light and water plants belonging to said town. Upon presentation of the bill, under Section 16, Chapter 95, of the Revised Code of Delaware, the Chancellor certified to the Chief Justice his disqualification to hear and determine the cause, who made an order for a rule requiring the defendants to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be issued restraining the execution…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice:
In the above stated cause the bill of complaint was filed on the eleventh day of February, 1911, by the Attorney General, upon the relation of certain citizens and taxpayers of the town of Newark, in which it is averred that on the eighth day of February last, in pursuance of a motion, a lease of the light and water plants of said town was executed, or was about to be executed, by and between the Council of Newark and the Newark Water and Electric Company, and that the Council of Newark is about to deliver said light and water plants to the said Newark Water and Electric…
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