Warren v. Street Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed October 29 and amended November 9, 1900, for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the mayor and street commissioners of the city of Boston in assessing betterments under St. 1894, c. 416, which authorized the street commissioners to extend, widen and construct Huntington Avenue from Copley Square in Boston to the town of Brookline.
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Petition, filed October 29 and amended November 9, 1900, for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the mayor and street commissioners of the city of Boston in assessing betterments under St. 1894, c. 416, which authorized the street commissioners to extend, widen and construct Huntington Avenue from Copley Square in Boston to the town of Brookline. The case came on to be heard before Lathrop, J., who, at the request of the parties, reserved it upon the petition, the amendment thereof, the answers, the return of the respondents and the agreed facts for the consideration of the full…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the street commissioners of the city of Boston, assessing a betterment tax on the estate of the peti*7tioner, on account of the widening and extension of Huntington Avenue.
The statutes authorizing the widening and extension provided that the work should be done with all reasonable dispatch by the superintendent of streets; and directed first, that it should all be done by contract, second, that the number of contracts should not exceed five, each to be subject to the approval of the mayor, and third, that when the…
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