Wilson v. Lambert
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. In January, 1895, Mary Yan Riswick, widow, and Avarilla Lambert, and Martina Carr, children and heirs of John Yan Riswick, deceased, filed a bill of complaint in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the Commission under the Rock Creek Park Act of September 27, 1890, c. 1001, 26 Stat. 492, seeking to restrain the said Commission from assessing lands of the complainants for any portion of the cost…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. In January, 1895, Mary Yan Riswick, widow, and Avarilla Lambert, and Martina Carr, children and heirs of John Yan Riswick, deceased, filed a bill of complaint in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the Commission under the Rock Creek Park Act of September 27, 1890, c. 1001, 26 Stat. 492, seeking to restrain the said Commission from assessing lands of the complainants for any portion of the cost and expenses of locating and improving the Rock Creek Park, for the alleged reason that the sixth section of the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Shieas,
after making the above statement, delivered.the opinion of the court.
Courts of equity undoubtedly have jurisdiction to hear the complaints of those who assert that their lands are about to be assessed and subjected to liens by a board or commission acting in pursuance of the provisions of a statute which has been enacted under the forms of law, but which is unconstitutional, and therefore does not avail to ’Confer the powers sought to be exercised. Dows v. Chicago, 11 Wall. 108; Union Pac. Railway v. Cheyenne, 113 U. S. 516; Ogden City v. Armstrong, 168 U. S. 224; Dillon’s…
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