Standard Oil Co. v. Magee

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• the doctrine “has no application to municipal corporations deriving their powers from the sovereign, though their powers in a limited sense are governmental. Thus the statute runs for or against towns and cities, and also for or against counties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).