Colgrove v. Smith
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
Action for personal injuries. Appeal by defendants from the judgment, and an order denying a new trial.
Appellants, as copartners doing business under the name of the Citizens’ Water Company of Pomona, obtained from the city of Pomona, by ordinance, a grant or franchise to dig trenches and lay pipes in the streets of the city, for the purpose of selling to and supplying, its inhabitants with water.
Afterwards, on June 1, 1889, appellants contracted with M. O’Neill and Frank Osier to dig and fill the trenches for the pipe at a specified price per hundred feet, a part to be two feet…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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