MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
The parties to this appeal are corporations of the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans Water Works Company was created by a special act of the General Assembly of Louisiana, passed March 31, 1877, and was given the exclusive right, for fifty years from the date of its charter, "of supplying the city of New Orleans and its inhabitants with water from the Mississippi River, or any other stream or river, by...
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