Scott v. McClung

When this case was before me on the motion for an injunction pendente lite, I held that the city council had authority, upon its own motion, not only to make a detailed statement of the cost of a proposed street improvement, but as well to make a contract therefor. I also decided that the provision of the city charter, forbidding a change of grade without the consent of a majority of the property owners of a street, does not contemplate such slight changes of grade as are only incidental to the repaving of a street, and further that the grade lines of Grand street would not be substantially…