Brewer v. City of Point Pleasant

Hatcher, Judge:

The bill herein attacks the validity of an ordinance of the city of Point Pleasant, which provides for constructing and financing a self-liquidating sewer system. The circuit court sustained a demurrer to the bill and certified the question of its sufficiency to this Court.

The local situation, as alleged in the bill, is that the city, incorporated in 1915, embraces territory formerly within the towns of Point Pleasant and North Point Pleasant, respectively; that prior to 1915, the town of Point Pleasant had a sewer system but the town of North Point Pleasant had none and the…