Tomlin v. Sawyer

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• municipal corporation is governed “for the most part” by the same rules that control a private, individual, or business corporation and is bound to terms of contract
• “Operation of utilities [is done] in its proprietary or individual capacity rather than its legislative or governmental capacity” and is “governed, for the most part, by the same rules that control a private, individual or business corporation.”
• “A municipal corporation engaged in the business of supplying public utilities and facilities is regarded as a public corporation transacting private business for hire, and, in that respect and to that extent, as a private or quasiprivate corporation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).