Linn v. Chambersburg Borough

Citations

• 160 Pa. 511
• 28 A. 842
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 840

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Municipalities—Manufacture of electricity — Act of May 20, 1891, P. L. 90 — Article 9, section 7, Const.</p> <p>The legislature has the constitutional power to authorize a municipal corporation to manufacture electricity for the use of the inhabitants of the municipality.</p> <p>The act of May 20, 1891, P. L. 90, entitled “ An act to authorize any borough now incorporated or that may hereafter be incorporated to manufacture electricity for commercial purposes, for the use of the inhabitants •of said boroughs,” etc., is constitutional.</p> <p>Municipalities — Constitutional limit of debt — Burden of proof.</p> <p>On a bill in equity to restrain a borough from undertaking the erection •of an electrical plant on the ground that the borough indebtedness would be increased beyond the constitutional limit, the burden is on the plaintiff to pi-ove that the indebtedness would be necessarily increased to an amount exceeding the legal limit.</p> <p>Equity — Master's fee— Costs — Review.</p> <p>In the absence of any evidence that would justify the Supreme Court in •saying that a master’s fee is clearly excessive, it will be assumed that the compensation sanctioned by the court below was not unreasonable.</p>