v0764-709

7

No. 2176.

United States

Circuit Court of Appeals

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT.

The City and County of San Fran-

cisco, a municipal corporation,

et al..

Appellants^

vs.

Spring Valley Water Company, a

corporation,

Appellee.

Brief of John W. Shenk, City Attorney of the City of Los

Angeles, and George E. Crycr, Assistant City Attor-

ney of the City of Los Angeles, Amici Curiae, in

Support of the Contention of Appellants.

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT.

Appellee, a California corporation, has filed in the

United States District Court, a bill charging that the

city and county of San Francisco, a municipal corpora-

tion of said state of California, has passed and intends

to enforce an ordinance fixing rates to be charged and

collected by appellee for water supplied to the inhabi-

tants of the said city and county of San Francisco ; that

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