State ex rel. Wahoo Water Works Co. v. City of Wahoo

Hastings, C.

May 16, 1889, the city of Wahoo adopted an ordinance1 “to supply water to the city of Wahoo,” and authorizing plaintiff to construct, maintain and operate water-works in the city. By section 3 the city agrees, in consideration of benefits derived, to rent for twenty years forty-three1 hydrants, at an annual rental of $46.50 for the first ten years and $58 for the second ten years, after January 1, 1899, for each hydrant. The ordinance was accepted by the plaintiff and the plant erected, and the rents paid for some years — plaintiff says until 1898, — when the city refused to levy…