Diederich v. City of Red Cloud

The city of Red Cloud, a city of the second class having less than 5,000 inhabitants, by ordinance created paving district No. 1 of that city, and afterwards let a contract for paving a street in the district; and the city council was about to levy assessment upon the property owners of the district to pay for the paving, when this action was begun by some of the property owners to enjoin the city and the officers thereof for making such levy. From a judgment in favor ©f the city, the plaintiffs have appealed.

1. The first objection is that no estimate was made by the city engineer as provided…