City & County of Denver v. State Investment Co.

Defendants in error, as plaintiffs in the district court, prosecuted a suit against plaintiffs in error, as defendants, to relieve lands owned by the former from the assessment of a tax for the cost of paving a street upon which the lands abutted, in Colfax Avenue Paving District No. 3 in the city-of Denver. The tax or assessment was imposed, or the attempt thereto made, under the law known as the Í893 charter of the city of Denver. The provisions of the charter regulating the exercise of the power, and the procedure thereunder essential to a valid assessment, are sufficiently set forth in…