In the Matter of Sharp

The assessment upon the petitioner which he asks to vacate was imposed for a local improvement of St. Felix street, from De Kalb avenue to Hanson place, by paving the same with Nicholson pavement. The street had before been paved with cobble-stone pavement. The permanent board of water and sewerage commissioners had, under the act of 1870, the exclusive power to repave streets in the city of Brooklyn, but when a street had once been paved had no authority to repave the street with any other kind of pavement than that existing thereon unless upon the application, in writing, of a majority of…