City of Leavenworth v. Mills
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Leavenworth District Court. Injunction to restrain the collection of special taxes levied for grading a street. Action commenced July 5, 1869, by Lafayette Mills, H. G-. Fauts, Hugh Ewing, and fourteen other persons, as plaintiffs, against The City of Leavenworth, John Hosick, as city Treasurer of said city, and John Dugan, as defendants.
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Error from Leavenworth District Court. Injunction to restrain the collection of special taxes levied for grading a street. Action commenced July 5, 1869, by Lafayette Mills, H. G-. Fauts, Hugh Ewing, and fourteen other persons, as plaintiffs, against The City of Leavenworth, John Hosick, as city Treasurer of said city, and John Dugan, as defendants. The said plaintiffs are owners in severalty of certain lots adjacent to, and fronting on Cherokee street in the city of Leavenworth. On the 27th of December, 1865, a contract was made by the city with Michael Rogers, to grade Cherokee street from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Yalentine, J.:
That the City of Leavenworth had ample power to grade streets and assess the cost of grading the same to the lots adjacent thereto, and require *295that the contractor should loolc exclusively to such assessment for compensation, will not be denied by the plaintiffs below, nor by Dugan’s administrators. But they contend that there were many irregularities, which released the lots and the lot owners from liability and made the city itself liable for the grading.
These supposed irregularities are as follows: Rogers’ bond was not double the…
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