City of St. Joseph v. Lake Contrary Sewer District

VICTOR C. HOWARD, Chief Judge.

The current appeal involves the interpretation of a sewer subscription contract in which the City of St. Joseph (“St. Joseph”) agreed to treat sewage delivered to it from two smaller neighboring suburbs, the Village of Country Club (“Country Club”) and the Lake Contrary Sewer District (“Lake Contrary”) (together “subscribers”). St. Joseph sought, and was denied, a declaratory judgment and mandatory injunction ordering the subscribers to comply with a duly passed ordinance which required the subscribers to perform comprehensive testing and inspection of their…