Halpin v. Campbell

This was a suit upon two tax bills for grading Fifth street from Charlotte street to the eastern limits of the City of Kansas. By an ordinance of the city the grading was authorized, and the contract was made and the work done in pursuance of the ordinance. A section or part of the street upon which defendant’s property fronted and against which this assessment was made, had previously been graded under an ordinance of the city, and defendant’s property in question was assessed to pay, and paid its due proportion of the expense of that work, while the balance of the property on that street,…