Quinn v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed July 21, 1903, for a writ of certiorari to quash an assessment upon certain real estate of the petitioner for alleged benefits from the laying out and widening of Belmont Street in Cambridge. At the hearing before Hammond, J. the petitioner contended that the assessment was invalid because not made within two years of the order for the laying out and widening of the street.
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Petition, filed July 21, 1903, for a writ of certiorari to quash an assessment upon certain real estate of the petitioner for alleged benefits from the laying out and widening of Belmont Street in Cambridge. At the hearing before Hammond, J. the petitioner contended that the assessment was invalid because not made within two years of the order for the laying out and widening of the street. The justice ruled that the order was not complete until December 24, 1900, the date at which it was approved by the mayor, and, as the assessment was made within two years from that date, that it was valid.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ .of certiorari to quash an assessment of betterments upon the estate of the petitioner, resulting from the widening of Belmont Street in Cambridge. The only ground of objection to the assessment is that it was not made within two years from the passage of the *508original order, as it should have been under the Pub. Sts. c. 51, § 1. The common council concurred with the board of aldermen in adopting the order on December 12, 1900, and the mayor approved it on December 24. The assessment was made on December 16, 1902, and the question is, whether the order widening…
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