Charles v. City of Marion

BAKER, District Judge.

The supreme court of this state has expressed no recent opinion upon the constitutionality of the statute (Burns’ Rev. St. 1894, § 3626) providing that lot owners “shall be liable to the city for their proportion of the costs of street and alley improvements in the ratio of the front line of their lots owned by them to the whole improved line of the street and alley improvements.” Prior to the decision in Village of Norwood v. Baker, 172 U. S. 269, 19 Sup. Ct. 187, 43 L. Ed. 443, the supreme court of this state and of many other states had held that state legislation…