Kinsella v. City of Auburn

The action was brought to vacate an assessment which was apparently a lien upon the plaintiff’s premises in the city of Auburn. It was levied pursuant to proceedings taken to pay the expense of constructing a sewer in Van Anden street. The regularity of the proceedings up to and including the adoption by the common council of the resolution authorizing the construction of the sewer is not questioned, but it is contended that to render the resolution effectual, its approval by the mayor or its re-adoption by the common council was required by the statute, which provides that no resolution…