Inhabitants of Leominster v. Conant

This is a writ of entry in which the demandant seeks to recover certain premises, which were sold by the collector of taxes of Leominster for the non-payment of an assessment laid thereon by the selectmen of Leominster for the construction of a sewer. The demandant’s title depends upon the validity of this assessment, and of the proceedings had to enforce the same.

While no particular form of words is made necessary by the statute to be used by the authorities in laying out a sewer, yet *385there must be such a laying out before any assessment therefor can be made; and this must be done with…