CROWN CORK & SEAL CO. v. CITY OF LAKEVILLE

Nos. 51327, 51578.

313 N.W.2d 196 (1981)

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC., etc., Appellant, v. CITY OF LAKEVILLE, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

December 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Keating, Faribault, for appellant.

Grannis, Grannis, Campbell & Farrell and Roger N. Knutson, So. St. Paul, for respondent.

Stanley G. Peskar, League of Minnesota Cities, St. Paul, Holmes & Graven, David L. Graven and Larry M. Wertheim, Metropolitan Waste Control Commn., Minneapolis, for amicus curiae.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


TODD, Justice.

Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (Crown) purchased industrial property in Lakeville which it converted to a can manufacturing plant. The previous owners had connected to the municipal sewage and water facilities and paid assessments and connection charges for such hookups. Crown's operation required increased sewer and water capacities so they constructed larger service lines to be connected to the municipal facilities. Lakeville levied a connection...

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