by John Marshall Harlan, St. Tammany Water-Works Company v…
“ Touching this and similar suggestions by counsel of the appellant, it is sufficient to say that no question arises in the present case as to whether the state or the municipal government of New Orleans may not, if the public health or the public comfort so require, compel the appellee, now having the exclusive right of supplying the city of New Orleans and its inhabitants with water distributed through pipes laid in the streets of that municipality, (or if it refuses, employ other agencies,) to supply water from some river or stream other than the Mississippi. ”
