People ex rel. Davidson v. Gilon
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari to review a decision of the .board of assessors of Hew York city, making assessments on the property of the relators, John Davidson and others, for expenses of paving Madison avenue in that city between 133d and 137th streets. For previous proceedings in same case, see 9 H. Y. Supp. 690.
1Opinion of the CourtDaniels, J.
The expenses of the improvement were mainly assessed upon the property fronting upon the avenue. Before it was either ordered or made, the assessors, in their return to the court, have stated the facts to be that there was and is in said avenue between 133d and 137th streets a double line of track owned and operated by the New York & Harlem Railroad Company as and for a horse railroad, and the avenue has been paved between and about the said railroad track, and the amount of said paving included in the above gross amount of paving done on said avenue and assessed upon said houses and lots, as…
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- Rhodes v. City of ClevelandOhio Supreme Court · 1840
- City of New Haven v. Fair Haven & Westville RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
- City of Chicago v. BaerIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
- The Mayor, C., of New-York v. . ColgateNew York Court of Appeals · 1854
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