New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Town of Mentone

In 1916, the appellee town of Men-tone improved the main street through said town. Appellant was assessed as an abutting property owner, $1,474.45, which it paid without protest. After the improvement was completed in 1917, appellee, being un*590able to pay the cost of paving street and alley intersections, undertook to make an assessment therefor and in so doing, attempted to assess appellant upon its railroad property in said town, including its right of way, railroad track, side track, station buildings, telegraph poles, wires, instruments, other appliances and improvements, situated on its…