State ex rel. Hodgdon v. Hoquiam Water Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the

superior court for Chehalis county, denying the application of the relator for a writ of mandate requiring the Hoquiam Water Company to supply him with water for a house owned by him, situated in the city of Hoquiam, upon a lot bordering upon a public alley in which that company has a main as a part of its system of water works. The water company refused upon demand to furnish appellant water for his house, until he paid to it a charge of four dollars for tapping the main and extending a service pipe from the main to the boundary line of the lot upon…