In re the Assessment for the Asphalt Improvement of Baldwin Street
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by The City of Rochester from, five orders of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 31st day of March, 1914, setting aside assessments for asphalt pavements in certain streets in the city of Rochester, together with costs in each proceeding.
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Separate appeals by The City of Rochester from, five orders of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 31st day of March, 1914, setting aside assessments for asphalt pavements in certain streets in the city of Rochester, together with costs in each proceeding. These are five separate special proceedings, one m regard to the assessment for each street named in the title, taken under the provisions of the charter of the city of Rochester.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
The orders appealed from were granted in special proceedings taken under section 203 of the charter of the city of Rochester upon the petitions of certain property owners upon Baldwin street, Chamberlain street, Stout street, Denver street and Greeley street, in the eighteenth ward of said city, praying that the assessments for asphalt improvements upon said streets made by the board of assessors of said city be vacated and set aside by reason of the fact that the territory upon which the expense of the said improvement was placed was too narrowly restricted, and that the expense…
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- Matter of the Petitions of Laura E. EagerNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- In re the Extension of Church StreetNew York Supreme Court · 1867
- In re ShafferAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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