In re Keep

Charles B. Wheeler,

Official Referee. The charter of the city of Lockport (Laws of 1911, chap. 870) provides for an appeal to the Supreme Court by aggrieved parties from an assessment levied on their property by officials of the city. It reads:

“ § 246. Appeals to county and supreme courts. An appeal may be taken within twenty days from the time of the first publication of every ordinance directing any local improvement, to the county court of the county of Niagara; and in case the county judge of said county shall be interested in any such local improvement, he shall certify such appeal to the…