Centre Hall Water Co. v. Borough of Centre Hall

Citations

• 186 Pa. 74
• 40 A. 153
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 961

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Water companies — Exclusive privileges — Borough.</p> <p>A water company incorporated without exclusive privileges prior to the act of April 29, 1874, which has supplied water to the residents of a town prior and subsequent to its incorporation as a borough, but which has never had any contract with the borough, and has never by any action of the borough been induced to extend its pipes or expend money upon its plant, is not entitled to an injunction to restrain the borough from establishing and maintaining waterworks of its own. White v. Meadville, 177 Pa. 643, Metzger v. Beaver Falls, 178 Pa. 1, and Wilson v. Rochester, 180 Pa. 509, distinguished.</p>