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Nov-05-96 03: 16P Coleman Gledhill Hargrave 919 732 7997r
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<br /> FALL •1')::1111, 1111". 521
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<br /> ba1•r beett held tr, Irt• 'illljr-c'tt. crf 1nl;el Contracts, birld1II:, upon tllc St1C
<br /> ��ors to tllc cvnt.rxct„} ht„l•, ;rn t.ile prim'tIlle thaT tl,r•y hnvc b<rnnlc
<br /> =platters of hnsincss polticr or lau.,itr+s iii"'t'et:i„+. S l,u� a rvr tr;lct to
<br /> keep a trcet in rcpnir, running for tru r as not ronsidrrrtl off(")-
<br /> siTC to t.hr ru)e, nithourh the In-ring alit of flit. rr;tc hr.lnli^ _rncrally
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<br /> to the <li�orc tintlnry l'rc,trrr. jrxr?t i>ttr lrpkrall C'v. I'.
<br /> Uujivillc, 123 Ky., GS4 ;t7 S. W., 31. \trc inn• be prnnittctl to runkr.
<br /> the parentltrtirnl utscrtntinu hrre Clint, %%hilt a tder our late tlic 1.tyIng
<br /> ` out and gradi=tg of atrcet.t, brlt+r,g. tv tllr cxcrri-c: of a fiorcrnlacntal
<br /> fatictioll, thy, town Ls, no-ort1lrless, liable for Inlill'y .tui:tnit„�l lhri,ti�h
<br /> pegIil;even in kt'epir.; -lit, :itirtrnikt in tef'larir. I�rrl.ef.l v. R. I:., 200
<br /> C., 750, t:,tt S. R.. ::;r;,
<br /> Our at.terltivil is rallr;l to thr rosy; of .ilrl: r. A•*hrVV 13U it. C.
<br /> r 7 48, 114 S. R.. Fi I, isi tt"ltich rertn"err tt•as deilird for injnry avid ileath
<br /> sustalI rtCtl throuAll pollution Of tbf IvIltrl-A Iry rt•n Citl, Of ucgl:gcncc In
<br /> the operation of n s, tw(,rngi. plant, on the CrUtllad that the rntllreli5
<br /> sionrrc of the to11-tt, in the constructintt nild ojl, rntiou of tltc s(,,u•crago
<br /> plant, r'crc in thr prrforinaurt of n ptu•ely governmental funetioct,
<br /> Under the gesnern) 1',o-rcrc+ giit,n to t«1s-tts anti cities to eonstruot and
<br /> r operate setcerage systems, we doubt wherlier it is necessary to invoke
<br /> i the Icolice power to sustain cutlh yntl,t,rity, sad it is difficult to rcrnncilr.
<br /> Mctz r•. , sherrille, .ar_lrre, .t;th Vv-xter r. Burlington, 162 N. C., 141,
<br /> r• i8 S. W., 74 (e)cuhare Asbury v. AtbatstePrIc, :62 1T. C., 217); al-
<br /> though n•e do not attempt, te, ditollrb the classiiiration there given. We
<br /> t do, hirtCtrer, rSf,rr'4S T14C t,1„uie?n that Ca6t:ti clenlisi�t; solely with the
<br /> 9 lial,ility of crtltnieipatl corporations for ut-ligei,ec of its wcrtartts or
<br /> agents do nut ruts parnllrl ulth varies un-olvin•; the pQivvr to contract,
<br /> and their applinsi6ors may become misleatlittg.
<br /> We think the purposes of this; particular contract [oust determine it;,
<br /> validity, ratbt-.r thou the history incidentnl to the es,terprise and the
<br /> c fact that material for the remnvn) t',f which the city Contra kited is the
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<br /> to-railed '`tiludge,” or proelnet of treatment through tLe city ar,wrrn,r.
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<br /> It is ,'here ra mli auce or pim-ritinI nui:tnttrt, and its rninorat rtlis within
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<br /> the rate-gory of situilnr cul,j,:riw of mutract Zvhirh hn.c vftrn brct au.-
<br /> 1 tairird by the coilrts. Sill-It a centraut for the reulvl•al of garhnge iA
<br /> 1 3urtained in Balch r. Utica. :.A N. Y. S.. 51'3, 165 V. Y., G;,1, til
<br /> 13:.17; see Roberts 6'a.11irrlell, `L11 N. Y., 304, Ills N. 8,., 548, Be-
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<br /> l moral of dt-atl auitnnles: Loucsrilly 1r. Mrible, y4 Icy., 1200, 1 5. W., Goa.
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<br /> See XrRcatt, v. Frr.ma, 112 i,ai.1.. I5U, 44 I'., 358; Calijurnia j;rrlrlchlyn
<br /> X10, v. Sanitary itary Re.( u:liun SCorls. 1W) I.T. S., atlG,
<br /> } NVe uannot rec that any govcrnnirntal discretionary power of the city
<br /> 11672 eoxuprumisrd in the Inak;ltg of this oontrart, and we are of the
<br /> opillion that it ennnc,t 1,e arbitrarily or eapri,•iously abandoned during -
<br /> r its tertn.
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