Trimmer v. City of Rochester

On May 2, 1865, the defendant, by its common council, passed an ordinance for the improvement of Oak street, in that city, from Allen street to Lyell street. The plaintiff’s assignor, Thomas Brady, was assessed for such improvement in the sum of $492, divided into three equal annual payments of $164 each, two of which were paid by him or some one in his behalf into the city treasury, respectively, in the years 1865 and 1866. In an action brought in the year 1867 by one William E. Hasson, this street improvement was declared to be illegal, because certain property belonging to the state of Hew…