Proprietors of the Cemetery v. Mayor of Cambridge

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Cambridge in laying a sewer assessment on the petitioner’s land, and to restrain the collector of that city from selling the land assessed. The respondents demurred, on the ground that the petitioner was not entitled to the relief sought.

The Pub. Sts. c. 50, § 1, authorize the proper officers of towns and cities to make main drains and common sewers, and § 4 provides that “every person who enters his particular drain into such main drain or common sewer, or who by more remote means…