Thomas v. Gain
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from St. Clair Circuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley, Ch. J.:
The principal question in this cause is, whether it is competent to provide by law that sewer taxes in a city shall be assessed upon the lots and lands benefited in proportion to their superficial area. A subordinate question is, whether, conceding such an assessment to be legal, it can be lawfully made without giving the parties concerned an opportunity to be heard.
The assessment in question was laid under .act No. 241 of 1875. — Local Acts 1875, p. 8. The second section of that act provides that before the assessment shall be made, the common council shall, by resolution,…
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