Batty v. City of Hastings

Pound, C.

In 1892 the city council of Hastings, pursuant to a petition purporting to be signed by the owners of a majority in front-feet of the property abutting upon certain streets, created a paving district and, after a proposition had been duly submitted and voted upon and bonds issued for pav-ing the intersections, proceeded in November, 1894, to as*28sess the cost of paying said district upon the property abutting on the several streets therein. This suit urns brought by some thirty-eight property owners in said district to have such assessment declared invalid, to enjoin collection of the…