Taylorville Sanitary District v. Winslow

The question involved in this case is whether a sanitary-district organized under and by virtue of an act entitled “An act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal,” approved June 22, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, has authority to construct a local improvement by special assessment, as provided by section 19 of the act as amended in 1923. (Laws of 1923, p. 340.) The Taylor-ville Sanitary District is composed of territory partly within and partly without the city of Taylorville. On August 6, 1924, the board of trustees of that district passed an ordinance providing for…