Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Hansen

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage upon real estate, and also to foreclose the right asserted by the city of Tacoma to refuse to furnish further water and light service to the premises. The defendant mortgagors defaulted. A demurrer to the city’s answer having been sustained, the city declined to plead further. Findings and conclusions were subsequently made, based upon which a decree granting the relief prayed for was entered. The city of Tacoma has appealed.

The facts necessary to be considered are these: Incorporated cities and towns of this state are authorized to construct,…