Canade, Inc. v. Town of Blue Grass

Defendant town asserts that under the authority of § 368.11, The Code, 1966, it imposed a membership fee as a “condition” upon which its fire department would answer fire calls outside the corporate limits. An answer to interrogatory disclosed the set fees (good for the life of the most recently purchased fire truck) were: Tract under ten acres, $30; more than ten acres, $60; business establishments, $100. Separate memberships were purchased by owners of mobile homes established in various mobile home parks, including the plaintiff park.

When Dr. Fred Glade, president and stockholder of…