Schriver v. Mayor of Cumberland

This appeal is from a denial of the writ of mandamus to compel the City of Cumberland to extend its water supply system to the house of the appellants, in a mountainside area recently annexed to the city, designated as “Annexation District No. 1.” The site is at the outer edge of the district, at a height above that to which the existing system will force water, and the city officials answer that their present resources would not cover the expense of adding the necessary pump tank and pipes to carry water higher, or of maintaining the supply with this equipment if installed. The house is one…