Seaman v. Dickinson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Charlotte C. Seaman, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Dutchess Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 21st day of September, 1895, denying her application for a writ of certiorari.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This is an appeal from an order of the Special Term denying the application of the relator for the issue of a writ of certiorari to review an assessment for the repaving of Market street in the city of Poughkeepsie.
The substantial attack on the validity of the assessment is that the provision of the charter of the city (§§ 126, 127, chap. 523, Laws of 1883) authorizing the respondents to lay an assessment for such improvements is unconstitutional, in that it fails to provide for giving any hearing to the parties to be taxed. The application was denied by the Special Term, not as a…
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