Court Opinion

ID: 9864454
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:10:24.848071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:54.214191
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing It is pointed out in the petition for rehearing that the Tiltons have been using water which passed through the Butler meter without paying therefor. This fact is conceded, hut is explained by saying that the water company refused to install a meter for the Tiltons until their right to make the connection was adjudged, which right, as appears from the original opinion, had been denied, but the Tiltons offered to pay and were at all times, and are now, willing to pay for any water they use. There is no testimony in the record from which we can determine what this payment should be and the cause must, therefore, be remanded to ascertain the sum to be paid by the Tiltons. But inasmuch as no judgment was prayed in the court below, this will be done without a re-assessment of the costs, but the Tiltons will be required to pay any costs incident to the ascertainment of the amount of water for which they should pay. The Tiltons will be required to have installed for their separate use a meter to measure the water they use, and to do so as soon as the water company is able to make the installation of the meter, and if they fail to do so within a reasonable time, an injunction should be issued restraining them from using the water passing through the Butler meter.