Farwell v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 43 Wash. 141
• 86 P. 217
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 668

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Powers—Water Supply — Supply Outside City Limits. The city of Seattle, under its charter, art. 4, § 18. subd. 14, authorizing waterworks to supply “said city and its inhabitants with water,” has no authority to supply water to another municipality outside of the city, since the authority of a city to exercise its powers beyond its own limits must depend upon express or implied' statutory grant.</p> <p>Same — Statutes—Construction—Ejusdem Generis. Laws of 1897, c. 112, authorizing cities to furnish water to the city and the inhabitants thereof “and any other persons” must, under, the rule of ejusdem, generis, be construed to mean other persons of the same class, i.- e. persons within, and not to persons without, the corporate limits.</p>