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KING MFG. CO. v. AUGUSTA

No. 392.

277 U.S. 100 (1928)

KING MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. CITY COUNCIL OF AUGUSTA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bryan Cumming for plaintiff in error.

Mr. E.H. Callaway, with whom Mr. Archibald Blackshear, City Attorney, was on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought in a state court in Georgia to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance of the City of Augusta fixing rates for water power supplied from a canal owned and maintained by the city. The plaintiff is a manufacturing company which operates a mill adjacent to the canal with water power supplied therefrom. The objection urged against the ordinance is that it is repugnant to the contract...

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