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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed October 11, 1898, by the selectmen of Revere, a town within a radius of ten miles from the state house in Boston, and within the metropolitan water district as designated by St. 1895, c. 488, entitled “ An Act to provide for a metropolitan water supply.”
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Petition, filed October 11, 1898, by the selectmen of Revere, a town within a radius of ten miles from the state house in Boston, and within the metropolitan water district as designated by St. 1895, c. 488, entitled “ An Act to provide for a metropolitan water supply.” The petition alleged that within Revere, a corporation known as the Revere Water Company was engaged in the business of supplying the inhabitants thereof with water for domestic and other purposes; that the rates charged to the inhabitants by that company for water supplied for domestic and other purposes was unreasonable,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
The only question raised by the demurrer is the constitutionality of the provision of St. 1897, c. 336, § 1, under which the petitioners proceed. This section amends § 23 of the Metropolitan Water Supply Act, St. 1895, c. 488. It embodies a scheme which forbids cities or towns within ten miles of the state house to use water for domestic purposes, from any source not now used by them, except under the statute. This *516prohibition standing alone might seem to put into the hands of a water company now supplying any such town or city the power to make exorbitant charges, by giving it a monopoly.…
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