Gast Realty & Investment Co. v. Schneider Granite Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction and constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of certain provisions in the charter and a street paving ordinance of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, are stated in the opinion. The provisions under which this assessment was made are not repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction and constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of certain provisions in the charter and a street paving ordinance of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, are stated in the opinion. The provisions under which this assessment was made are not repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment. Shumate v. Heman, 181 U. S. 402; French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co., 181 U. S. 324; Schulte v. Heman, 189 U. S. 507. An assessment against all the ground within an improvement district will not be overthrown merely…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a suit to collect a tax for paving Broadway, a street in St. Louis, levied upon land of the defendants fronting, upon that street. The plaintiff, "defendant in error, did the work,-received an assignment of the tax and got a judgment for. the amount. The only question here is whether the ordinance levying the tax under the charter of the city is -consistent with " the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The charter provides that one-fourth of the total cost shall be leviechupOn all the property fronting upon or adjoining the improvement according to frontage…
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