Dickinson v. City Council of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the city council of Worcester, in assessing upon the petitioner the sum of $499.22, as his proportionate share of the expenditures of the city for sidewalks on Belmont Street.
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Petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the city council of Worcester, in assessing upon the petitioner the sum of $499.22, as his proportionate share of the expenditures of the city for sidewalks on Belmont Street. The petition alleged that the petitioner owned an estate abutting on Belmont Street three hundred and fifty feet and six inches; that on November 13, 1883, the city council adopted an order assessing him and his estate the sum above stated, for the alleged expense of constructing a sidewalk; and that the city council had refused to abate the assessment. The…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This cause was reserved upon the petition, answer, and certain evidence which has been reported. The allegations of the answer, in addition to the record, if the answer be regarded not only as a certificate of the doings of the city council not formally appearing of record; but also as a pleading alleging facts which are extrinsic to the records and doings of the city council, and which tend to show that substantial justice has been done, must, upon a reservation upon the .petition and answer, be taken to be true, except so far as the case is reserved upon evidence relating to such…
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