Walker v. Village of Brooklyn

Plaintiff herein sued defendant to recover the sum of $20.10 alleged to have been collected under an unlawful sidewalk assessment and for $11.15 for work done for defendant in grading in front of plaintiff’s house in the village of Brooklyn. The case was tried by the court without a jury. No requests for finding of fact or law were made by either party. The court filed a written opinion in which he said:

“As I am unable to find that the village acted with*521out jurisdiction in respect to this sidewalk, and as the jurisdictional question has been submitted by counsel as the fundamental one in this…