Town of Woodruff Place v. Raschig

Clifford avenue, sixty feet in width, runs along the north side of Woodruff Place; and the authorities of the town, understanding that the south half of said avenue was within the limits of the corporation, instituted proceedings, under the Barrett law, for the improvement of seventeen and a half feet of the roadway next south of the middle line of the *517avenue, and made assessments of benefits against the lots abutting thereon. Thereupon the appellee, as owner of lot 59, in said town, being one of said abutting lots, began this action against the appellants, namely, the town of Woodruff Place,…