Cornell University v. Village of Cayuga Heights

Cornell University appeals from an order of the Tompkins County Court which dismissed its petition for a reversal of an apportionment of the expense of maintenance and construction of the Cayuga Heights Village Sewer System as it affected certain unimproved lands owned by petitioner and known as the Savage farm, after a trial without a jury. The contention of petitioner-appellant is that the apportionment was unlawful, unequal, erroneous and inequitable as it was applied to the aforesaid property and that three disinterested freeholders of the village should be appointed to make a new…