Legal Opinion

Hanscom v. City of Omaha

Nebraska Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1881PublishedCited by 35 opinions

Appeal from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Savage, J. The opinion states the case. cited In the matter of Albany street, 11 Wend., 149. Clapp v. City of Harford, 35 Conn., 66. Mayor of Baltimore v. Hughes, 1 Gill & Johnson, 480. Creighton v. Manson, 27 Cal., 614. Washington Avenue, 69 Penn.

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Appeal from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Savage, J. The opinion states the case. cited In the matter of Albany street, 11 Wend., 149. Clapp v. City of Harford, 35 Conn., 66. Mayor of Baltimore v. Hughes, 1 Gill & Johnson, 480. Creighton v. Manson, 27 Cal., 614. Washington Avenue, 69 Penn. State, 357. The State v. Newark, 3 Dulcher, 186. Tide Water Co. v. Coster, 3 C. E. Green, 519. Sharp v. Speir, 4 Hill, 76. Hill v. Higdon, 5 Ohio State, 247. Harford v. Omaha, 4 Neb., 344. State, ex rel. Abbott, v. Bodge Co., 8 Neb., 124. cited Cooley on Taxation, 110, 449. Turner…

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Maxwell, Ch. J.

In the year 1878 the city council of Omaha divided the city into two sewer districts, by a line running from the Missouri river, west along the center of Earnham street, to the western boundary of the city, and designated that portion of the city south of said line as sewer district No. 1, and that portion north as sewer district No. 2. Sewer district No. 1, as thus formed, was about two and one-half miles in length, and about one and three-fourths miles in width. A considerable portion of the territory in the south-west portion of the district has not been laid out into blocks…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Hurford v. City of OmahaNebraska Supreme Court · 1876
  2. State ex rel. Roberts v. WestonNebraska Supreme Court · 1876
  3. Dundy v. Board of County CommissionersNebraska Supreme Court · 1879
  4. B. & M. R. R. v. Board of County Commissioners of Saunders Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1880
  5. Omaha Horse Railway Co. v. DoolittleNebraska Supreme Court · 1878

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. City of Fort Myers v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 1928
  2. City of Fort Myers v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1928
  3. Paulson v. City of PortlandOregon Supreme Court · 1888
  4. Sears v. Street Commissioners of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
  5. Smith v. City of OmahaNebraska Supreme Court · 1896

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