Providence Retreat v. City of Buffalo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The City of Buffalo and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office' of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 10th day of Hay, 1897, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Erie Special Term, restraining the defendants from collecting an assessment made against several parcels of land owned by the plaintiffs for the expense of constructing a sewer in the city of Buffalo.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J.:
The “ Providence Retreat,” a domestic corporation, brought this action in its own behalf as well as in behalf of others similarly situated to have declared null and void an assessment roll made by the assessors of the city of Buffalo to defray the expense of constructing a sewer through Delavan avenue in that city, and to restrain the defendants from the collection of the assessment levied thereunder.
After the action had been commenced two other domestic corporations, viz., “ The Institute of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Diocese of Buffalo, ” and “ Le Couteulx St. Mary’s…
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