Augusta Water District v. Augusta Water Co.

Chapter 334 of the Private Laws of 1903, entitled “An Act to Incorporate the Augusta Water District,” authorized the Water District to acquire by purchase, or to take by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, the plant, property and francliises of the Augusta Water Company within such district and elsewhere. It contained a provision for the appointment by the court, in case the Trustees of the Water District and the Water Company should fail to agree upon the terms of the purchase of the latter’s property, of three disinterested appraisers, for the purpose of fixing the valuation of…