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The Hill St. Sewer

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Judgo Kiiine late Tuesday afternoon handed down the following decisión in the case of Bryant Walker vs. the City of Ann Arbor: "Au important and necessary public improvenient was mado in this city. The estáte of Corydon Ford receive-d its due benefit therefrom. I discover no equity in the atteinpt to escape its legitímate burdens. The bill if compiaint should be dismissed as destitue of equity." When the lateral sewer in the Hill street district was completed and tho assessrnents made therefor, there was a great conimotion. among the property owners affected. They banded together, took legal advlce and refused to pay their share of the oost of the sower, or if they did so, under protest. Among ofcher things it was claimed that the common couneil had not follovTed the law in p'itting down the sewer and that the whole city should help pay the expense, au liad been done wibh the mam sewer. The administrator of the Dr. Corydon rm Ford estáte, Bryant Walker, of Detroit, undertook to carry the matter to the eourts in a test case. Agalnst the Ford estáte orer $400 was taxed. The case was warmly contested. If the Ford estáte won the way was open for every one of the other lateral sewer districts to follow suit, they having beeü construc-ted after the saine plan of procedure: The brief but forcifole decisión of Jndflp Klnne sets the troublesome eontest a rest, urrless the plaintiffs eonelude to earry the case into the liiglier courts

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Ann Arbor Democrat