Guest v. Merion Water Co.

Citations

• 142 Pa. 610
• 21 A. 1001
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 784

Syllabus

<p>1. A water company, incorporated under the provisions of the act of April 29, 1874, P. L. 73, and its supplements, is a public corporation, and the structures necessary to its operations are not subject to a mechanics’ lien for work done and materials furnished in the erection thereof : Foster v. Fowler, 60 Pa. 27.</p> <p>2. This rule is unaffected by the provisions of § 1, act of April 7, 1870. P. L. 58, authorizing the personal, mixed or real properly, franchises and rights of any corporation to be sold on a fieri facias; such process being in lieu of and on the footing of a sequestration for the benefit of all the corporate creditors.</p>