City of Barre v. Barre & Chelsea Railroad

The plaintiff seeks to recover the amount of an assessment against the defendant on account of certain street improvements. The ease was heard on an agreed statement of facts, and to the judgment for the plaintiff the defendant excepts. Acting under authority of its charter, the city drained, paved, graded, curbed, and guttered the street in question, and assessed the abutting land owners proportionately, according to the frontage of their land on the street for a portion of the expense. The land on account of which the defendant was assessed is its right of way twenty feet wide, used solely…