Chastain v. Oklahoma City

J. D. Chastain, as plaintiff, filed this suit seeking to enjoin the city of Oklahoma City, as defendant, from collecting a sewer service charge as provided for by a city ordinance. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The defendant, through its proper officers, enacted a city ordinance on July 24, 1951, whereby it was provided that a sewer service charge should be made against, and collected from, those inhabitants using the city sewers. Plaintiff, a resident taxpayer, owned his home in the city. On October 11, 1951, he paid $2 upon the allegedly “void and…