Waterworks Improvement Dist. No. 2 v. Logan County

This appeal involves the right of a municipal improvement district .embracing the city of Paris, in Logan County, to- impose an assessment of betterments against town lots on which a county courthouse and jail were- situated for waterworks purposes. The only defense to the suit is that authority for such assessments does not exist in the law. The court below so found, and dismissed this suit, which was brought to enforce the payment of delinquent assessments.

The power to assess public property used exclusively for public purposes, school buildings and other property exempted by the…