Municipality Number Two v. White

The questions involved in this case concern the constitutional rights and powers of a co-ordinate branch of the government, and have undergone the most mature deliberation of the court. The appellants, as owners of property contiguous to Benton street, which has been recently opened by the authority of an ordinance of the municipality, resist the payment of the amounts for which they have been respectively assessed for their properties, of benefit derived from this public improvement, on the ground that the several Acts of the Legislature, by which the whole burthen of paying the costs…