Hallett v. City & County of Denver

The concrete question for decision is whether, between the date of the adoption of art. XX of the state constitution, which disincorporated .the former city of Denver and several other municipal corporations and merged them into the new city and county of Denver, and the date of the adoption by the new municipality of its own charter and ordinances, the new body politic had the power to create sidewalk districts and assess the cost of building sidewalks therein on plaintiff’s abutting property. Stated abstractly, the question is whether, during this interim, the city possessed only the…