Cheney v. City of Beverly
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed October 20,1902, and amended May 12, 1903, for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Beverly in laying a sewer assessment on certain real estate of the petitioner on Arthur Street in that city. The case came on to be heard by Barker, J., who reserved it upon the amended petition, the return of the respondents and an agreed statement of facts for determination by the full court.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowLTON, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash an assessment of a part of the cost of construction of a sewer, upon the estates benefited thereby.
The sewer was constructed as a part of a system of sewers adopted by the town of Beverly by a vote of the inhabitants on March 6, 1893, m accordance with the provisions of the Pub. Sts. c. 50, § 7. This appears not only by the votes of the town, and subsequently by those of the board of aldermen of the city, but by the averment of the petition “ that said sewer was constructed as a part of the system of sewerage alleged to have been adopted by…
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- Weed v. Mayor & Aldermen of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
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