Crofts v. Board of Assessors

These are three petitions for certiorari. The petitioners in the first two are the same. They seek by proceedings, in the first petition against the board of assessors, and in the second against the mayor and city council of North Adams, to annul action taken in assessing upon the several petitioners certain sums for paving a way in North Adams. The petitioners in the third, brought against the mayor and city council, seek to annul action in assessments for the construction of a sidewalk along said way.

The returns show that the assessments for paving and edgestones for the purpose of paving…