CONNETT v. CITY OF JERSEYVILLE

No. 6410.

96 F.2d 392 (1938)

CONNETT et al. v. CITY OF JERSEYVILLE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emil J. Verlie, J. F. Schlafly, Jr., and C. Dana Eastman, all of Alton, Ill. (Green, Verlie & Hoagland, of Alton, Ill., of counsel), for appellants.

Brown, Hay & Stephens, of Springfield, Ill., Walter J. Chapman, of Alton, Ill. and I. D. Snedeker, of Jerseyville, Ill. (Logan Hay and R. Allan Stephens, both of Springfield, Ill., Walter J. Chapman, of Alton, Ill., and I. D. Snedeker, of Jerseyville, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and TREANOR, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

The questions here presented involve appellants' alleged right to require appellee to increase its water rates in order to pay certificates of indebtedness held by appellants, subsequently reduced to judgment in foreclosure, which certificates were issued and sold by appellee to pay for the purchase and construction of its water plant.

The facts out of which the controversy arises are substantially as follows: Prior to 1923, the city...

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