Wilson v. Borough of Rochester
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Bill in equity No. 244, Miscellaneous Docket No. 1, to restrain the construction of waterworks by a borough. The case was referred to a referee from whose report the following appeared : The borough of Rochester was incorporated by special act of assembly, approved March 20,1849, and on September 7, 1871, accepted the provisions of the general borough act, approved April 3, 1851, P. L. 320. The Valley Water Company was incorporated on February 10, 1890, under the corporation…
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Bill in equity No. 244, Miscellaneous Docket No. 1, to restrain the construction of waterworks by a borough. The case was referred to a referee from whose report the following appeared : The borough of Rochester was incorporated by special act of assembly, approved March 20,1849, and on September 7, 1871, accepted the provisions of the general borough act, approved April 3, 1851, P. L. 320. The Valley Water Company was incorporated on February 10, 1890, under the corporation act of April 29,1874, for the purpose of supplying water to the public, in the borough of Rochester. On May 7, 1890, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
It is very evident from a close inspection of this voluminous record that a full and patient hearing was accorded to the parties by the learned referee in this case; and the painstaking consideration that Avas afterwards given by him to all the questions — both of fact and of law — that were presented by the pleadings and evidence, is fully attested by his exceptionally clear, methodical and exhaustive report of the case to us. When his report was completed and ready for filing, the parties were invited to examine the same, and except to anything therein that either of them might…
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