
    Thomas L. Hicks, Thomas Martindale and Finley Acker, Appellants, v. The City of Philadelphia, Charles F. Warwick, Thomas M. Thompson and the United Gas Improvement Company.
    Argued Jan. 24, 1898.
    Appeal, No. 460, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1897,. No. 832, refusing preliminary injunction.
    Before Sterrett,, C. J., Green, Williams, McCollum, Mitchell, Dean and'. Fell, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    
      Alexander Simpson, for appellants.
    
      James Alcorn, assistant city solicitor, with him, John L. Kinsey, city solicitor, and JSrnest Lowengrund, for appellees.
    
      John Gi. Johnson and Charles JS. Morgan, Jr., for the United1 Gas Improvement Company.
    February 21, 1898:
   Opinion by

Mr. Justice Mitchell,

This case was argued with Baily et al. v. Philadelphia,, ante, p. 594, and the decree is affirmed for the reasons given in* the opinion in that case filed herewith.  