State Ex Rel. City of Loogootee v. Larkin

Appellant, as plaintiff below, filed its complaint against appellees, and alleged in substance that the relator, City of Loogootee, is now and was during all the time here in question, a city of the fifth class. That in 1938 it purchased* from the Loogootee Water Company, the waterworks system of the City of Loogootee, which system furnishes water as a public utility to the inhabitants of said city; that since said city acquired said waterworks system, the common council of said city has never by ordinance provided for the management of said waterworks plant, by a trustee or a board of…