St. Tammany Water Works v. New Orleans Water Works

Citations

• 120 U.S. 64
• 7 S. Ct. 405
• 30 L. Ed. 563
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 1941

Syllabus

<p>On similar facts, with reference to the same corporate grant, Neto Orleans Water Works Co. v.Nivers, 115. U.S. 674, is affirmed to the point that a legislative grant of an exclusive right to s.upply water to a municipality and its inhabitants, through pipes and mains laid in the public streets,, and upon condition of the performance of the service by the grantee, is a grant of a franchise vested in the state, in consideration of the performance of a public service, and, after performance by the grantee, is a contract protected by the Constitution of the Ujiited States against state legislation, and against provisions in state constitutions, to impair it.</p>