Jones v. Board of Water Commissioners

Campbell, J:

The only question presented by the record in this case is whether assessments made by the water commissioners of Detroit against property not rising water are valid.

The defendant is a corporation auxiliary to the city of Detroit, and in charge of its water works. By .the original act of incorporation the water commissioners were empowered from time to time to “cause to he assessed the water *274rate to be paid by tbe owner or occupant of each house or other building having or using water, upon such basis as they shall deem equitable; and such water rate shall become a continuing lien,…