City of Newport v. Lang

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellee filed this equitable action seeking to enjoin the City of Newport from executing a contract made by it for the construction of a sewer in a certain district therein, in which appellee was the owner of property, and from issuing or selling bonds to be paid by the levy of a tax on abutting property.

In 1890, and before the adoption of the present Constitution, the Legislature passed an act authorizing the construction of sewers in the City of Newport, and pursuant to that Act the city was divided into five sewer districts, the property of…