City of Madera v. Black
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Madera County. J. J. Trabucco, Judge Presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
Madera is a city of the sixth class. In the year 1909 it acquired, and it has ever since maintained, a system of sewers extending through certain of its public streets. Its ordinances required that all dwelling-houses situated on lots abutting on a sewered street should be connected with such sewer, and forbade the disposal of sewage in any other manner. The defendant then owned and ever since has owned and occupied a dwelling-house on one of said streets, and in compliance with the ordinance he put in the sewer connections and has ever since used the sewer to carry' the sewage from his house.
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