Johnson v. Rudolph

YAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing plaintiff’s bill in an action to quash an assessment of special taxes against certain land situated along Rhode Island avenue extended. The tax levied was for one-half the cost of taking up an existing macadam pavement on Rhode Island avenue and replacing it with an asphalt pavement. The assessments were made under the provisions of the Act of Congress of July 21,1914, 38 Stat. 517, 524, as follows:

“Hereafter whenever under appropriations made by Congress, the roadway of any…