Baker v. Tobin

This is a case of an appeal from a precept issued by the order of the common council of the city of *311Greencastle, for the collection of an assessment claimed to be due from the appellant, as a property owner, to the appellees, as contractors, for work done upon a certain street improvement in said city, under an order of, and contract with, the common council.

The whole proceeding in relation to the street improvement was certified by the city clerk and filed in the court below, where it is made by statute to stand as and for a complaint in the case. The work was ordered to be done without a…