Lehigh Valley Railroad v. Mayor of Jersey City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The prosecutors of this writ attack the regularity and amount of a final assessment for the construction of a main sewer in Jersey City. The tract to be drained by the sewer consists of what was originally and in part still is marsh land, formerly flowed by the tide, and is substantially included within an irregular pentagon whose northeast and longest side of about two thousand Wo hundred feet bounds on a line parallel with and about one hundred feet south of Montgomery street, a main highway filled to an elevation of seven to ten feet or so…