Town of Highlands v. Weyant

This is an appeal by the petitioners from a declaratory judgment which held four contracts made by two water districts and two sewer districts with the respondent village for the furnishing of water and sewer services to the inhabitants of these districts to be void and unenforceable. The term of each of the contracts is for ‘ ‘ so long as the said district exists ”.

The trial court held that, since these contracts might be operative for more than 40 years and sections 118-a and 119-a of the General Municipal Law, which deal with water supply and sewage disposal, respectively, limit such…