Mansfield v. People ex rel. Wells

This is au appeal from a judgment rendered in the court below against lands of appellant for a delinquent special tax levied by the city of Sandwich-for the construction of a sidewalk. The ordinance providing for the construction of the walk was passed by the city council under the provisions of the Sidewalk act. (Starr & Curtis, chap. 24, pars. 305, 306.) Upon the hearing, among other things, it was contended that the ordinance failed to state the width of the sidewalk, or to prescribe the material of which it should be constructed or the manner of its construction, as required by the…