Campbell v. City of Jackson

The question to be determined is whether the assessment exceeds thirty three and one third per cent of the value of the plaintiff’s premises immediately after the completion of the improvement in question. The defendant resists the reduction of the assessment upon plaintiff’s property, relying to some extent upon the attitude taken by this .court in Rogers vs. Johnson, 21 Ohio App. 292, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. vs. Village of Oak Hill, 25 Ohio App. 301. In those cases we held that the value of the benefits conferred upon land subject to assessment was not, generally speaking, a…