Brown v. Otis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lyman M. Otis, as treasurer of the city of Rochester, from that part of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 9th day of July, 1902, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Monroe Special Term, which adjudges that the defendant has no lien on certain real property described in the complaint by virtue of an assessment thereon.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiffs by virtue of the will of Dyer D. S. Brown, deceased, owned a tract of land of about sixty-two acres situate in the town of Gates, which is contiguous to the city of Rochester. Pursuant to chapter 60S of the Laws of 1892, and the various acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, the commissioners named proceeded with the preliminary work prescribed by the acts pertaining to the construction of a sewer in certain wards of the city of Rochester extending into the town of Gates. They also apportioned the cost thereof upon the lands chargeable therewith and upon…
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