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Show ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW DECISIONS WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. Whether a private water company is justified in shutting off the water supply to a city tho moment its franchise expires or can get compensation if it continues its Bervico was a Question presented today for review in the supremo court of tho United States. The City Water company of Chilli-cothe, Chilli-cothe, Mo., whoso franchiso expired in 1906, is seeking to collect some $40,000 from the city for water service since that date, on tho cround that it would not have been justified for humanitarian humanitar-ian reasons in shutting off the service. The lower federal courts have held that the company could collect nothing. The wnter companj- wants the supromo court to review these decisions. |