McGarvey v. Swan
Wyoming Supreme Court
Reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Roderick N. Matson, Judge. The action was brought in the District Court by Charles L. McGarvey against Daniel S. Swan, as City Treasurer of the City of Cheyenne, to enjoin the collection of a special assessment upon certain property of plaintiff, levied to pay the cost of constructing a sewer along a street upon which said property abuts.
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Reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Roderick N. Matson, Judge. The action was brought in the District Court by Charles L. McGarvey against Daniel S. Swan, as City Treasurer of the City of Cheyenne, to enjoin the collection of a special assessment upon certain property of plaintiff, levied to pay the cost of constructing a sewer along a street upon which said property abuts. The case came to the Supreme Court upon certain reserved questions deemed to arise upon the consideration of a demurrer to the petition. The questions and facts are stated in the opinion.…
1Opinion of the Court
Pott£R, Chipj? Justice.
This case has been sent here upon the order of the district court in and for the County of Laramie, for a decision upon certain reserved questions involving the constitutionality of an act of the legislature known as Chapter 7 of the published laws of the session of 1903. The statute provides as follows:
“That in every city of this State heretofore incorporated under a special chapter, and not under the general law of Wyoming, and having a population of ■ not less than ten thousand inhabitants, to be determined by the last preceding United States census, and having power…
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