City of Des Moines v. City of West Des Moines

In 1925 plaintiff, City of Des Moines, and defendant City of West Des Moines, then named Yalley Junction, entered into a contract for the use of part of plaintiff’s sanitary sewer system as an outlet for defendant’s sanitary sewer system. In 1947 plaintiff brought suit against defendant city alleging the contract was void for various reasons and that it was unreasonable and praying that it be decreed void or, in the alternative, that defendant be required to pay, for the use of plaintiff’s sewer facilities, a sum per person of its population equivalent to the cost to plaintiff per person.…