Schmidt v. Masters

This appeal is from judgment of the circuit court on petitioner’s Writ of Review of action of the Board of County Commissioners for Washington County in awarding a sanitary service (for waste collection and disposal) certificate pursuant to Ordinance No. 59 of Washington County. The Board awarded petitioner substantially less than all of the territory for which he had applied. The petition attacked the ordinance on grounds that the county had no authority to enact the ordinance; that the ordinance provides no standards for the establishment of the service areas provided therein; that it…