Crutchfield v. Nash

Appeal from a judgment refusing to enjoin the defendant contractor and the city of Missoula from constructing a sanitary sewer trunk line as a special improvement district project.

Missoula, a city of more than 16,000 population, is bisected by the Missoula River; one-half of her people reside south of the river. The north side has had an adequate sewer system for years, but the south side is still compelled to rely upon cesspools and the like. Prior to 1927, two attempts to create improvement districts for the installation of a sewer system on the south side met with failure, and in that year…