Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank v. City of New York

Plaintiffs, owners of real property in ward 5, borough of Queens, city of New York, sue to recover sums of money paid by them under protest to defendant City of New York, as assessments levied against their respective parcels for the construction of a local improvement in Queens Borough known as the Brookhaven sewer. Plaintiffs contend the. assessments were void and illegal because of alleged failure to give required public notice, particularly notice of submission of the petition initiating the proceedings before the proper local board of the district of Jamaica on May 13, 1931. Plaintiffs…