Riverview Estates, Inc. v. City of New York

Order, entered on or about March 27, 1963 and the judgment entered thereon on or about April 3, 1963 granting summary judgment to plaintiffs, unanimously affirmed, with costs to respondents. The action presented the question of whether plaintiffs’ properties had been lawfully assessed for work done by the City of New York on a pre-existing sewer adjacent to their properties or whether the cost of the work must be paid out of the city’s Sewer Rent Fund. In granting summary judgment to plaintiffs, Special Term (in an opinion reported at 38 Misc 2d 607) relied upon and quoted from the provisions…