Knotts v. Nollen

The ultimate question is whether the rate or classification given by defendants to apartment houses constitutes an unlawful discrimination against them. Defendants’ classification of such buildings for rate purposes is as follows:

“Apartment houses, tenement houses, etc., shall be rated as residences; each suite or set of rooms or apartments occupied separately being rated as one residence.’’

In addition to service and special charges, defendants have prescribed a sliding meter rate of 30 cents for the first 1,000 gallons per day, 20 cents per 1,000 for the next 4,000 gallons or less per day,…