City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT'COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN. DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the constitutional validity of an ordinance of the city of Knoxville fixing maximum. rates to be charged for water by the defendant water company, are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT'COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN. DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the constitutional validity of an ordinance of the city of Knoxville fixing maximum. rates to be charged for water by the defendant water company, are stated in the opinion. The ordinance of March 30, 1901, was not unconstitutional; it did not violate any valid contract between the city and the .company, or undertake to change the contract as to rates between the company and the city itself, but only to regulate the . rates charged by the water company to other water consumers…
1Opinion of the Court
' Mr. Justice Moody
delivered the opinion of the court..This is an appeal by the city of Knoxville from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The appellee is a public service corporation, chartered for, and engaged in, the business of supplying that city and its inhabitants with water for domestic and other uses. The cause in which the decree was rendered is a suit in equity which was brought by the company on December 7, 1901, against the city to restrain the enforcement of a city ordinance fixing in detail the maximum rates to be charged by…
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