Seiler v. Board of Sewer Commissioners

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court dismissing a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the assessments made by the respondent board of sewer commissioners of Hingham against the petitioners’ estates for a proportional part of the cost of a new sewer system in the town of Hingham. The petitioners are the owners of twenty-nine parcels of real estate in the Crow Point section of Hingham.

The case was tried on an “Agreed Statement of Facts,” and the exhibits are before us. We state the agreed facts as summarized by the trial judge in his memorandum and *453order. “In 1900 common…