Hobby v. City of Sonora

Plaintiffs and appellants are the owners of real property located outside the corporate limits of the defendant city. The property is improved with a duplex dwelling. During the year 1939 plaintiffs’ predecessors in interest paid the city the sum of $100 for the privilege of connecting a sewer from said property to a private sewage line outside said city limits, which line in turn emptied into the city’s sewage system. Since the date of the original connection neither plaintiffs nor their predecessors in interest have paid any other or further charge to the defendant for such sewage service.…