Worcester Agricultural Society v. Mayor of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of certiorari, setting forth that the petitioner was an incorporated agricultural society, having for its limits the county of Worcester • that it was seised in fee of lands on the west side of Seaver Street, in Worcester; that the mayor and aldermen of Worcester, by an order dated April 15,1872, “ assessed upon said lands the sum of five hundred and ninety-two dollars, describing the same in said order as the ‘ grounds of the Worcester County…
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Petition for a writ of certiorari, setting forth that the petitioner was an incorporated agricultural society, having for its limits the county of Worcester • that it was seised in fee of lands on the west side of Seaver Street, in Worcester; that the mayor and aldermen of Worcester, by an order dated April 15,1872, “ assessed upon said lands the sum of five hundred and ninety-two dollars, describing the same in said order as the ‘ grounds of the Worcester County Agricultural Society,’ ” pretending that said lands were liable to such assessment, and that said sum is the proportionate share of…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the respondents’ proceedings in laying an assessment upon the lands of the Worcester Agricultural Society. By the St. of 1867, c. 106, § 1, the city council of Worcester were authorized to make and maintain in said city all such drains and common sewers as they shall adjudge to be for the public health or convenience,’ and by § 4, of the same statute, it was provided that “ every pen-*191son owning real estate upon any street in which any drain or sewer may be laid under or by virtue of this act, and upon the line thereof, or whose real estate…
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