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DAWSON v. COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY

No. 154.

197 U.S. 178 (1905)

25 S.Ct. 420

49 L.Ed. 713

CITY OF DAWSON v. COLUMBIA AVENUE SAVING FUND, SAFE DEPOSIT, TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1905.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles A. Douglass and Mr. Dupont Guerry, with whom Mr. Homer Guerry was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Olin J. Wimberly, with whom Mr. John I. Hall was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity brought in the Circuit Court by the appellee, the Trust Company, as mortgagee of the Dawson Water Works Company, to restrain the city of Dawson from taking measures to build a new set of water works, and to compel it specifically to perform a contract made with the Water Works Company in 1890 to pay that company or its mortgagee a certain sum for the use of its water for twenty years....

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