Legal Opinion
Colby Univ. v. Village of Canandaigua
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
Decided August 26, 1895PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The complainants, owners of mortgage bonds issued by the Canandaigua Waterworks Company, have brought this suit to restrain the village of Canandaigua and its board of water commissioners from building, maintaining, or operating a system of waterworks for the purpose of supplying the village and its inhabitants with water, and they now move for an injunction restraining the defendants from doing so pending a final determination of the cause. The theory of the suit is that the defendants are proceeding, in violation of the rights of the complain*672ants, to construct such…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Syracuse Water Co. v. . City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Matter of City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
3Cited by6 opinions
- City of Middlesboro v. TerrellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934
- North Springs Water Co. v. City of TacomaWashington Supreme Court · 1899
- Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. City of Sioux FallsU.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Dakota · 1904
- Collins v. JohnsonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1963
- Warsaw Waterworks Co. v. Village of WarsawAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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