Omaha Water Co. v. City of Omaha
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for tKe District of Nebraska. The Omaha Water Company, a corporation of the state of Maine, exhibited its bill against the city of Omaha, the water board of that city, and the individual members of that hoard, all citizens of the state of Nebraska, to restrain them from enforcing an order of the water board made on May 1, 1905, which reduced some of the meter rates fixed by an ordinance of the city passed on July 11, 1880,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for tKe District of Nebraska. The Omaha Water Company, a corporation of the state of Maine, exhibited its bill against the city of Omaha, the water board of that city, and the individual members of that hoard, all citizens of the state of Nebraska, to restrain them from enforcing an order of the water board made on May 1, 1905, which reduced some of the meter rates fixed by an ordinance of the city passed on July 11, 1880, under which the complainant was furnishing water under a contract with the city, upon the grounds that the order of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The water company seeks an injunction against the reduction of the maxima rates fixed liy the ordinance of 1880, because the proposed reduction impairs the obligation of its con*5tract with the city in violation of section 1(5, art. 1, of the Constitution, and because the reduced rates are unreasonable and hence violative of the fifth and fourteenth articles of amendment to the Constitution. The Legislature of Nebraska empowered the city of Omaha to make a contract with individuals or corporations “to construct and maintain waterworks on such terms and under such regulations as may be agreed…
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