Hawyer v. City of Omaha

Tbis was a proceeding by tbe plaintiff Samuel Hawver, in tbe district court for Douglas county, to restrain the collection of a certain special tax or assessment to cover one-balf tbe cost of grading Sixth street in tbe city of Omaha from a point 500 feet south of Credit Foncier Addition to Bancroft street. Tbe plaintiff is, according to the allegations of bis petition, tbe owner of tax lot No. 11, section 26, town 15, range 13 east, in Douglas county, of which tbe defendant city, on tbe 19th day of November, 1888, for tbe purpose of extending Sixth street from tbe point above mentioned, took…