City of Fort Collins v. Park View Pipe Line

We will refer to plaintiffs in error, City of Fort Collins, as the City; the City Council as Council; Park View Pipe Line, a mutual ditch company comprised of Hamilton and fifty others, as the Pipe Line Company; to all other defendants in error who comprise one class as Betz and others.

The Pipe Line Company and Betz and others were plaintiffs in the trial court. They commenced action to enjoin the City from discontinuing their water service; to compel the City to continue to furnish water, and to enjoin the City from requiring them, as a condition to future water service, to sign a new water…