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RAMAPO WATER CO. v. NEW YORK

No. 715.

236 U.S. 579 (1915)

35 S.Ct. 442

59 L.Ed. 731

RAMAPO WATER COMPANY v. CITY OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 8, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Carroll G. Walter, with whom Mr. Walter C. Noyes was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Louis C. White, with whom Mr. Frank L. Polk was on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity to restrain the City of New York and the Board of Water Supply from proceeding further with the enterprise upon which they already had spent over one hundred and twenty-nine million of dollars in order to provide the city with a supply of water. The ground is as follows:

The plaintiff (appellant) originally was incorporated under a general act, in 1887, for the purpose of storing...

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