Nelson v. Warren Borough

Citations

• 200 Pa. 504
• 50 A. 250
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 521

Syllabus

<p>Water companies—Boroughs—Contract with water company—Act of April 5, 1873, P. L. 547—Borough of Warren.</p> <p>The Act of April 5, 1873, P. L. 547, entitled, “ An act to authorize the borough of Warren to erect waterworks and borrow money,” did nothing more than declare what the borough had already a right to do by its acceptance of the provisions of the general borough act of April 3,1851, i. e., either to construct waterworks of its own, or to contract with a water company for a supply of water ; and if in 1881 and 1889, it contracted with a water company for a supply of water, it could not in 1898 claim that it had the right under the act of April 5,1873, to establish waterworks.</p>