City of Kalamazoo v. Crawford
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Kalamazoo; Adams, J. Mandamus by the city of Kalamazoo to compel Walter Crawford, city assessor, to prepare an assessment roll and levy a special assessment for benefits to be derived from street sprinkling. There was an order granting the writ, and respondent brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The charter of the city of Kalamazoo provides that the common council shall have the power to cause the public streets to be sprinkled where deemed necessary, and that the cost thereof may be paid by the city, or the same or any part thereof, as the council may by resolution or ordinance determine, be assessed on the property adjacent thereto and benefited thereby. The council having ordered an estimate of the cost of sprink*59ling a portion of Portage street, which estimate, after-wards made and filed, amounted to $958.54, the council by resolution directed the sprinkling of such portion of the…
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