 It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers...  Handbook of American Constitutional Law - Page 403by Henry Campbell Black - 1897 - 716 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1894 - 1224 pages
...powtn of an incorporated town to make a contract for the construction of a levee exists? Is such power "necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted." or is such a power "essential «othe declared objects and purposes of thf corporation, not simply convenient,... | |
 | 1895 - 1312 pages
...is said in section 55, 2 DilL Mun. Corp., that "it is a general undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied." In City of Burlington v. Kellar, 18 Iowa, 65, it Is said to be "a well-settled... | |
 | 1895 - 808 pages
...approved by many of the latest judicial decisions : It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied.1 The necessary result of such a rule of law, with the accompanying strict... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider - 1895 - 802 pages
...Dillon on Municipal Corporations, § 89, that, "It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...not simply convenient but indispensable. Any fair or reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation,... | |
 | 1895 - 1210 pages
...municipal corporations than that given by Dillon in his work on Municipal Corporations (3d Ed. § 89): "A municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...corporation,— not simply convenient, but indispensable." The powers vested in the defendant upon the subject now under consideration are those granted to its... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1895 - 710 pages
...96 US 258. BRIEF FOE DEFENDANTS IN ERROR, McCov BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS. Municipal corporations possess and can exercise the following powers, and no others...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Cook County v. McCrea, 93 111. 237; Huesing v. City of Rock Island, 128 111. 465; Wheeler v. County... | |
 | Frank J. Goodnow - 1895 - 326 pages
...decisions of the courts themselves. He says : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporations not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence... | |
 | Frank Johnson Goodnow - 1895 - 326 pages
...decisions of the courts themselves. He says : " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...third, those essential to the declared objects and 45 purposes of the corporations not s1mply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt... | |
 | 1895 - 816 pages
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