WATER COMPANY v. KNOXVILLE

No. 123.

200 U.S. 22 (1906)

KNOXVILLE WATER COMPANY v. KNOXVILLE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles T. Cates, Jr., with whom Mr. Samuel G. Shields and Mr. R.E.L. Mountcastle were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John W. Green, with whom Mr. J.W. Culton was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought by the Knoxville Water Company, a corporation of Tennessee, against the City of Knoxville, a municipal corporation of the same State, and against certain individual citizens of Tennessee constituting the Waterworks Commission of that city.

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