City of Dawson v. Columbia Avenue Saving Fund, Safe Deposit, Title & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
delivered the opinion of the Gourt.'
This is a bill in equity- brought in the Circuit Court by the •appellee, the Trust Company, as mortgagee of the Dawspn Water Works Company,-do restrain the' city of Dawson from taking measures to build a new set of- water, works, and to compel it specifically to perform a contract' made with the, Water Works Company in 1890 to pay that company or its' mortgagee a certain sum for the use of its'water for- twenty, years. The Trust Company is a Pennsylvania corporation, and the only ground of jurisdiction for the bill as originally filed was diversity of…
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