El Paso Water Company v. El Paso

Citations

• 152 U.S. 157
• 14 S. Ct. 494
• 38 L. Ed. 396
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2105

Syllabus

<p>In a suit in a Circuit Court by a water company, to which a municipal government has granted the exclusive right to supply it and its inhabitants with water for fifteen years, against the municipality to prevent it from establishing or maintaining other water works within the limits of the municipality until after the expiration of said period, it did not appear affirmatively that it was contemplated that the other works complained of were to go into operation until after the expiration of that period; and as it did not appear from the record that there was over $5000 in controversy, held, that this court had no jurisdiction.</p>