Petition of Wm. B. Astor to Vacate an Ass't.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term vacating an assessment for paving Fourteenth street in the city of Hew York, between Eighth and Hinth avenues, with Hieolson pavement.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term vacating an assessment for paving Fourteenth street in the city of Hew York, between Eighth and Hinth avenues, with Hieolson pavement. The resolution authorizing the work was introduced in the board of aldermen September 6th, 1869, it was adopted by that board September 27th, 1869, and by the board of assistant aldermen October 4th, 1869, and approved by the mayor October 11th, 1869. The Hew York Leader was appointed as one of the corporation papers by the common…
1Opinion of the Court
Chubch, Ch. J.
This is an appeal from an order of the General Term of the first department, affirming an order vacating an assessment against the petitioner for paving a portion of Fourteenth street. The principal point argued was as to the sufficiency of the publication of the action of the common council authorizing the improvement.
The seventh section of the amended charter of 1857 (chap. 446, Laws of 1857) provides, that “ All resolutions and reports of committees which shall recommend any specific improvement involving the appropriation of money, or the taxing or assessing the citizens of…
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