Legal Opinion
New Haven Water Co. v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided October 5, 1927PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
We held in Ansonia v. Ansonia Water Co., 101 Conn. 151, 125 Atl. 474, in conformity with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, that rates fixed by contract between a public service corporation and its customers, whether private persons or a municipality, may be superseded by rates fixed by the State in an appropriate exercise of the police power, except in two classes of cases: “First, those in which the State has in its Constitution or by statute explicitly conferred upon the municipality the power to establish by ordinance the rates to be charged by public service…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarterSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Walla Walla City v. Walla Walla Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. City of GoldsboroSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Los Angeles v. Los Angeles City Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
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3Cited by11 opinions
- State v. HillmanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. WalshSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1948
- Cyphers v. AllynSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1955
- Beach v. BeachSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- City of New Haven v. New Haven Water Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1946
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