Hancock v. City of Muskogee
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
Plaintiffs in error, owners of real estate in the City of Muskogee, brought suit in an Oklahoma state court seeking an injunction to restrain the city and its officials from encumbering their lands with a special assessment to pay for the construction of a sewer in Sewer District No. 12 of that city; contending that the statutes of the State and the ordinances of the city under which the district was created and the cost of the sewers therein assessed against the property within the district were in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, in that they deprived plaintiffs of their property…
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