McManus v. Hornaday

Plaintiff states his alleged cause of action in three counts,» as follows: (1) It is alleged that the city of Keokuk, acting under its charter powers, caused Orleans street to be curbed, guttered and macadamized, and that the cost of the improvement thus made was duly assessed against the property abutting upon said street. It is further alleged that the defendant was at the date of such improvement the owner of a certain lot fronting upon said street, against which lot there was assessed its due proportion of the cost of said improvement, and a certificate for the amount of such tax was…