Court Opinion

ID: 9811796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:28:52.19328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:21:28.965485
License: Public Domain

Clark, J.,
dissenting. Without calling in question our decisions that waterworks are not a municipal necessity, I think that water for public sanitation and protection of public buildings is such necessity, and that when the Legislature of the State has required the town to procure water, to the above extent at least, it is a necessary purpose. “The courts have nothing to do with the wisdom, policy or necessity of statutes which require an exercise of the police power.” Chicago v. State, 53 Am. St. Rep., 557, 572, and notes; Morris v. Columbus, 66 Am. St. Rep., 243, and notes.