117 Ky. 414 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1904
Opinion on the court by
Affirming.
The purpose of this suit was to obtain a mandatory injunction against the appellee, the Louisville Water Company, requiring it to ■ deliver by and through a meter belonging to and constructed by it in the month of May, 1901, opposite the lot of appellant, into the pipe of the appellant on his premises, water with which to sprinkle and clean the streets in front of his saloon, hall, residence and four cottages, all located upon a lot of land owned by appellant; the saloon, hall, and residence occupied by appellant, and the four cottages by his tenants. The appellant contends that appellee, as a quasi public corporation, should bet compelled to furnish him water for the uses named at the price he had been paying for eight or nine years, to wit, ten cents per day for not exceeding 700 gallons per day; and if he used exceeding that amount he was to pay in proportion. He further contends that, having received and paid for the water under the meter system, he was entitled to use it as he saw fit, or at least for the benefit of his tenants. Appellee contends that it had the right to establish under its charter reasonable rules and regulations in the conduct' of its business in supplying all persons along the line of its mains without
In the year 1902 the appellee refused to renew the contract with appellant and furnish him water that year unless he would detach the pipe that extended along the front of the four cottages and agree not to furnish water from this hose box to his tenants in the cottage, it having previously extended from its main service pipes into the yards of these cottages. Appellant refused to accede to this demand, and instituted this action. The lower court refused appellant the injunction, and dismissed his petition.
We are of the opinion that he had no -right to connect the pipes to his cottages and supply them with water from the
Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.
Petition for re-hearing by appellee overruled.