Maysville Water Company v. Stockton

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

In 1879 the city of Maysville enacted an ordinance under which, the Maysville Water Company supplied water to the inhabitants of the city at annual rates or at meter rates, as provided in the ordinance. Some years after this E. T. Kirk proposed to put .up an .apartment house, the first ever constructed in the city. This building is four stories high and contains eight apartments, two on each floor. The apartments are entirely separate from each other; there is a common hallway in the front of the building, into which each apartment opens.…