Welsh v. Borough of Beaver Falls

Citations

• 186 Pa. 578
• 40 A. 784
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 1045

Syllabus

<p>Boroughs — Waterworks—Contract.</p> <p>Where a borough has been enjoined from constructing municipal waterworks because, by a contract with a private corporation, it had exhausted its municipal power to introduce water, it will not be permitted to accomplish in an indirect way, what it has no power to do directly, and, therefore, it cannot subsequently make a contract with another private corporation to supply the borough with water for fire and other purposes, to supply the citizens of the borough with water at rates designated in the contract, and to sell the plant to the borough at a price not exceeding the costs of the same. Metzger v. Borough of Beaver Falls, 178 Pa. 1, followed.</p>