State Ex Rel. Hartung v. City of Springfield

By the Court.

The relator, in his petition for mandamus filed in this court, pleads the necessary statutory steps precedent to the issuance of an order by him as state Director of Health requiring respondents to make improvements, corrections, and/or changes in the protection, construction, operation and maintenance of the water supply and waterworks system, satisfactory to him, so as to provide the city of Springfield with a water supply and waterworks system adequate to avoid endangering the public health. The order was issued July 12, 1935, and was approved by the Public Health Council on…