Boyertown Water Co. v. Boyertown Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Boyertown Water Co. v. Boyertown Borough, 200 Pa. 394 (Pa. 1901)
50 A. 189; 1901 Pa. LEXIS 508
Brown, Cueiam, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mestrezat
Boyertown Water Co. v. Boyertown Borough
Opinion of the Court
The findings of fact and conclusions of law contained in the opinion of the learned court below so clearly and forcibly sustain the final decree, that we feel constrained to affirm the decree upon the opinion filed. We recognize the fact that it is a case of great hardship on the part of the plaintiff, and if it were possible for us to help the plaintiff we would cheerfully do so. But the plaintiff’s works were not erected under a contract with the borough for establishing a supply of water to the borough, and hence no exclusive privilege can be claimed, nor can it be held that the borough had parted with its right to furnish a supply by an exhaustion of its power so to do.
Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at the cost of the appellant.
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- Boyertown Water Company v. Boyertown Borough
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- Water companies—Exclusive privileges—Boroughs. The Act of June 2, 1887, P. L. 312, amended the Act of April 29, 1874, P. L. 94, section 34, cl. 3, and thereby repealed the exclusive privileges given to water companies under the latter act. Where a water company under its charter was required to furnish water free to a borough for the extinguishment of fire, the acceptance of such water by the borough does not forfeit the borough’s right to provide a supply of water for the use of its inhabitants.