...to a legislative body such as a city council. EP BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily...

...effect the purposes of their creation. In the work to which reference has been made it is stated : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the [New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First,...

...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within...

...Holland v. Baltimore, 11 Md. 186. Extent of Power— Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First,...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others :...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation...

...shall appear necessary and best answer the purposes intended for regulating and governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law,...declared objects and purposes •of the corporation. Dillon on Mun. Corp., § 55; Spaulding T. Lowell, 23 Eich. 71, 74 Our case seems to fall within the...

...municipal corporation can exercise the following powers: 1st. Those granted in express words; 2nd. Those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted. 1 Dillon, Mun. Cor., sec. 89. We think the power of the city to grant a lease of the supply of water...

...Dillon, in his work on municipal corporations, sec. 89, very clearly states the law as follows ; he says: "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal cor• poration possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: 1. Those granted in...