Cooper v. City of Goodland

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

The city of Goodland is a city of the second class and as such for some time previous to the commencement of this suit had owned, operated and maintained a system of water-works and had thereby supplied the inhabitants of the city with water. It seems that the city had been supplying water to the users thereof without any means of measuring the amounts used, and in January, 1908, the mayor and council of the city duly passed and published an ordinance pro*122viding, among other thing’s, that on and after April 1, 1908, no consumer of water from…