Coult v. Mayor and Board of Aldermen, City of Gretna

Samuel Coult and Leah Coult, his wife, residents of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Gulf Distilling Corporation of Delaware, as the owners and lessee respectively of an alcohol plant in the City of Gretna, brought this suit against the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Gretna and William E. Strehle, Superintendent of Waterworks of the City of Gretna, and their agents, officers and employees, etc., for an injunction to restrain them "from cutting off the water supply to petitioners' plant". Petitioners allege that Mr. and Mrs. Coult acquired the plant by purchase…