Taber v. City of New Bedford

In this action, which was brought on May 8, 1882, the plaintiffs seek to recover the amount of a betterment tax assessed upon them by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New Bedford, on account of the laying out and construction of an extension of Spring Street in that city in March, 1880. That, if such extension had been legally laid out and accepted, the betterment tax was assessed by the proper authority, is not controverted ; but the plaintiffs contend that they may now show that there was no legal laying out or acceptance, or at least that the record fails to prove this, and that they…