People ex rel. Brush v. New York Suburban Water Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
, Appeal by the defendant, The New York Suburban Water Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 9th day of November, 1898, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Westchester Special Term, overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the alternative writ of mandamus issued in the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J. :
-The appellant is a water company, incorporated under the general statute, and under a contract with the city of Mount Vernon to furnish a supply of water to the inhabitants of that city; ' The relator, an inhabitant of Mount Vernon, on a complaint that the appellant failed to furnish him and the. other inhabitants of the city with pure water; that it charged exorbitant prices for the water furnished that, instead of charging for the water according to the quantity consumed, it fixed its charges according to the number of taps, faucets or openings in the different buildings, and…
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