v0764-651

No. 2176

IN THE

United States Circuit Court of Appeals

For the Ninth Circuit

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

(a municipal corporation) et al.,

Appellants^

vs.

SPRING VALLEY WATER COMPANY

(a corporation),

Appellee.

BRIEF FOE APPELLEE.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court,

Northern District of California, Second Division, grant-

ing a temporary injunction enjoining the defendants

from attempting to enforce the provisions of an ordi-

nance adopted on June 26, 1912, by the board of

supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco,

fixing water rates for the fiscal year commencing July

1, 1912, and ending June 30, 1913.

The application for the injunction was based upon

the bill of complaint, various affidavits filed by com-

plainant, and one affidavit filed by defendants. It has

been, by stipulation, agreed that the only question in-

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