Borough of Braddock v. Penn Water Co.

Citations

• 189 Pa. 379
• 42 A. 15
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 653

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—Recording charter—Acts of April 29, 1874, and June 2, 1887—Water companies.</p> <p>The corporate existence of a water company does not date from the issuance of its patent, but from the date of recording its charter in the county where its “ chief operations are to be carried on.”</p> <p>A water company to which letters patent were issued on March 18. 1887, but which did not record its charter in the county where its chief opei'ations were to be carried on until May 8, 1888, acquired no exclusive franchises, since its corporate existence did not begin until after the passage of the Act of June 2,1887, P. L. 810, which so amended the general corporation act of 1874, that water companies created thereunder did not secure exclusive franchises.</p>