This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...There are sufficient dicta in the books to the effect that a chartered company even if possessing special privileges may withdraw from its enterprise altogether. The strongest language of this sort is in a recent California case 3 which decides, not inconsistently, that so long as water service is maintained ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...There are sufficient dicta in the books to the effect that a chartered company even if possessing special privileges may withdraw from its enterprise altogether. The strongest language of this sort is in a recent California case 3 which decides, not inconsistently, that so long as water service is maintained under the franchises held, the whole system must be kept in operation. "We do not mean to say that a corporation engaged in the distribution of water to public uses may not abandon its property 1 Quoted from Coe v. Columbus, Co. v. Dustin, 142 U. S. 492, 499, P. & I. R. R. Co., 10 Ohio St. 372, 35 L. ed. 1092, 1095, 12 Sup. Ct. 75 Am. Dec. 518 (1859). 283, 285 (1891). See also State v. Dodge City, M. And see Jack v. Williams, 113 & T. Ry. Co., 53 Kans. 329, 36 Fed. 823 (1902). Pac. 755, 24 L. R. A. 564, note 'Quoted from Fellows v. Lob (1894). Angeles, 151 Cal. 52, 90 Pac. 137 'Quoted from No. Pacific Ry. (1907). and quit the business, without being subject to mandatory proceedings to compel it to continue to carry it on. It may find it impossible to go on. Its supply may become exhausted or be insufficient for paramount needs; the rates fixed by law may be too small to enable it to operate at a profit, or without substantial loss; or, it may conclude, without any reason which the law would consider sufficient, that it will not continue. In case of a natural person it might become physically impossible. We do not intend to declare that in any such case mandatory process would be issued to compel the personal performance of the duty." 1 298. Discontinuing further gas supply. In another late case 2 where the charter of the gas company in question was plainly permissive, and where moreover the contract with the municipality in question...
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