In re Lockitt

Shortly prior to 1906, the city of Hew York, through its hoard of estimate and apportionment, proceeded under the provisions of its charter to widen Livingston street in the borough of Brooklyn. According to the resolution of its board of estimate and apportionment, the expenses of the improvement were to be borne in the proportion of seventy-five per centum by the city at large-and twenty-five per centum by the property deemed to be benefited. Proceedings were instituted in this court on the part of the city to acquire the lands necessary for the improvement, to determine the ex*7pense…