City of Pueblo v. Colorado Realty Co.

The plaintiffs, defendants in error, property-owners affected, complain of a special assessment levied upon their property by the city of Pueblo to pay the cost of a combined sanitary and storm sewer which it constructed. This public improvement was made under the authority conferred upon the city by act of the general assembly (Session Laws of 1899, p. 373) and the amendatory act (Session Laws 1901, p. 388). The important sections involved are subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 3 of the earlier act, which *592prescribe tire duties of the municipal authorities and define the rights of the property…