People ex rel. Keim v. Desmond
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 6th day of June, 1905, directed to John O. Déstnond and others, composing the board of assessors of the city of Utica, and another, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida all and singular their proceedings had in making certain local assessments.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, J.:
The relators seek to have reviewed by certiorari the validity of a local assessment for constructing a sewer in the street which their lands adjoin. The primary question involved in this controversy is whether, in making their determination, any rule of law was violated by the assessors to the prejudice of the relators. We think this has not been made to appear. The lands of the relators are on the westerly side of the street. They are considerably higher than *758on the east side. . In 1871 a stub sewer, was constructed on the west side of the street about half way across the block,…
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- People Ex Rel. S. U.H.R.R. Co. v. . BettsNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Le Roy v. Mayor of New-YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1823
- People Ex Rel. Scott v. . PittNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
- City of Ithaca v. BabcockAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
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- People ex rel. Brownell v. Board of AssessorsNew York Supreme Court · 1908