Hitchcock v. Board of Aldermen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three petitions for writs of certiorari. Colt, J., reserved the several cases for the consideration of the full court upon the petitions, answers and facts found, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The proceedings, of which these petitioners complain, related to the laying out and grading of three distinct streets in the city of Springfield. If we assume, as contended by the respondents, that these proceedings were all under the St. of 1871, c. 382, familiarly known as the betterment law, an assessment might properly have been made, upon the estate of each of the petitioners, for the laying out or grading of the respective streets to which they relate; and the petitions all present the inquiry at what time such an assessment may be imposed — whether, as contended by the respondents, it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jones v. Board of AldermenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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