Silver Shores Mobile Home Park, Inc. v. City of Everett

This is an appeal by the appellant, City of Everett, from a superior court judgment holding ordinance No. 4340 void by reason of being unreasonable. The ordinance in question established rates to be charged users of the municipal sewer system in a portion of the city.

The appellant had long been furnishing sewer service to property within the city. Prior to 1960 all sewer construction had been financed by local improvement districts. Starting in 1960 the City adopted a different method of financing the sewer construction—selling revenue bonds. Customers in areas wherein sewer construction was…