GLOUCESTER WATER SUPPLY v. CITY OF GLOUCESTER

No. 183.

193 U.S. 580 (1904)

GLOUCESTER WATER SUPPLY COMPANY v. CITY OF GLOUCESTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lauriston L. Scaife and Mr. Robert M. Morse, for appellant.

Mr. Albert E. Pillsbury, with whom Mr. George H. O'Connell was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

In the main, this case is like that of Newburyport Water Company v. Newburyport, just decided.

The Gloucester Water Company was engaged in supplying the city of Gloucester and its inhabitants with water under a non-exclusive charter and a non-exclusive hydrant contract made with the city. Under the authority of a statute enacted in 1895, similar in tenor to the act of 1894 considered in the...

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