Kliks v. Dalles City

This is a suit brought against the defendant city and several of its officers to determine the validity and construction of certain city ordinances fixing water rates under which the plaintiffs were required to pay for water used in the Commodore Apartments, an apartment building owned by them. In addition to a prayer that the ordinance be declared void on the ground that it establishes discriminatory and unreasonable rates for water as applied to the use in the plaintiffs’ apartment building, plaintiffs request the court to fix a maximum charge for their use of water; that the defendant be…