Town of Oxford v. Oxford Water Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• town entitled to declaratory relief concerning its authority to effect a taking of certain property before town actually did so
• \It is not necessary that the parties be irrevocably bound to a course of action before a court can afford declaratory relief\
• the purpose of declaratory judgment is to “enable the parties to deal intelligently with the situation before them, to agree between themselves as far as possible, and to reduce as much as possible the area of future litigation” (citation omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).