Berglund v. City of Tacoma

Hale, J. —

For many years, nearly 40 in some instances, the city of Tacoma’s water division has furnished water to 13 homes outside the city limits in the northeast Tacoma area. Other residents of the area sought the same service at the same rates, and to that end 52.76 per cent of the property owners within the proposed area petitioned the city to extend Tacoma’s water system into their district by means of a local improvement district.

Thereupon, the city council of Tacoma enacted ordinance No. 17894 creating LID No. 5408, a district wholly outside of but adjacent to Tacoma’s corporate…