Matter of Petition of Ferdinand Mayer
New York Court of Appeals
Appear from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term denying a motion to vacate an assessment for sewers in Seventy-ninth and Eightieth streets, between Avenue A and Third avenue. The objection to the assessment relied upon principally was, that a portion of the sewers were constructéd in streets not included in a sewerage district plan adopted or filed previous to mating the contract for the work.
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Appear from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term denying a motion to vacate an assessment for sewers in Seventy-ninth and Eightieth streets, between Avenue A and Third avenue. The objection to the assessment relied upon principally was, that a portion of the sewers were constructéd in streets not included in a sewerage district plan adopted or filed previous to mating the contract for the work. Chap. 580, Laws of 1872, is unconstitutional; being a local bill, it embraces more than one subject. (In re Blodgett, Ct.…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
The omission to file a plan of sewerage, embracing the sewer in question, was held by this court to be an irregularity fatal to the assessment, prior to the act of 1872. (46 N. Y., 178.) The seventh section of the latter act expressly provides that assessments shall not be Vacated for irregularities of this and the like character, unless fraud be shown. It is claimed that this act of 1872, being chapter 580, entitled “An act in relation to certain local improvements in the city of Hew York,” is a violation of that provision of the Constitution which declares that “no private or…
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