HENDERSON WATER CO. v. CORP. COMM.

No. 249.

269 U.S. 278 (1925)

HENDERSON WATER COMPANY v. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF NORTH CAROLINA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 14, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.H. Bridgers, for appellant.

Messrs. Bennett Hester Perry and T.T. Hicks, for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal under § 266 of the Judicial Code from an order refusing a temporary injunction heard before three judges. The Henderson Water Company is the owner by assignment of a franchise to furnish to Henderson, North Carolina, a supply of water. The franchise, with a term of forty years, was granted in 1892 by the city, when it was a town, to certain grantees, from whom it came in 1894 to the...

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