Court Opinion

ID: 9418321
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:21:16.110982+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:00.995462
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Day
concurs in this dissent, upon the ground that, applying th'e well settled rule that grants of the character here in question are to be given strict construction, and doubts as to their meaning resolved in favor of the public, and ambiguities are to be resolved in like manner, it is by no means clear that the City intended to grant to the Water Company a franchise for its then corporate life of twenty-five years and for subsequent renewals thereof as the stockholders might determine; and he is of the opinion, that the franchise expired at the end of the twenty-five year period for which its charter provided when the grant was madé.