In re Douglass
New York Supreme Court
Motion to vacate an assessment. George W. Douglass presented' his petition, asking, the court, under act of 1854, to vacate an assessment which had been imposed by the municipal authorities upon property belonging to him, for the expense of grading and paving Sixty-fourth-street between Third and Fifth-avenues. The facts on which he relied sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtIngraham, P. J.
The objection to the validity of this assessment is that the resolution and report of the committee were not published in all the newspapers employed by the corporation, immediately after the adjournment of the board. The statute contains the provision that the same shall not be passed or adopted until after such notice has been published at least two days (Laws of 1857, ch. 446). The proceedings were not. published in all the papers, and the notice was only published in the daily papers prior to the passage of the resolution. So far as the direction of the statute is' to publish the…
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