City of Denver v. Dunning

Defendants in error, as plaintiffs, brought this action to enjoin the enforcement of an assessment levied upon their property to pay the expenses of laying sidewalks abutting thereon.

To reverse a judgment in their favor, this writ of error is prosecuted.

So far as pertinent to this controversy, section *4892 of art. X of the charter of the city of Denver, of 1885, as amended in 1889, is as follows:

“The city council, upon the recommendation of the board of public works, may, by ordinance, order the construction or reconstruction of any sidewalk or sidewalks upon the official grade in the city of…