Lanham v. Forney

— This case comes to the court upon stipulated facts. From the stipulation, it appears, in substance, that, in 1929, the town of Springdale, a Washington municipality of the fourth class, by ordinance, granted to J. P. Lanham, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, the right to carry on a gen eral water service business, and to that end to lay, maintain, and operate, in and under its streets, alleys, and highways, the necessary pipes and conduits. The water system was installed shortly thereafter at an approximate expense of twenty-five hundred dollars, and has ever since been in…