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15 Ohio C.C. Dec. 256

Cincinnati v. Shoemaker

Hamilton Circuit Court

Decided July 1, 1903

Hamilton Circuit Court · decided 1903-07-01

A suit in the court of insolvency was filed by the defendant in error to enjoin the collection of an assessment for a street improvement, levied under the provisions of Sec. 2264b Rev. Stat. The city demurred to the petition, and the demurrer was overruled.

Decided 1903-07-01

JELKE, J.

¶1The former holding of this court that Sec. 22641? Rev. Stat. is invalid has nothing to do with the city’s fundamental right to make the improvement and assets the cost thereof equitably on the abutting property. It merely held invalid a rule for estimating the amount of the assessment different in Cincinnati, Toledo and Springfield from all the other municipalities in the state. If the benefits conferred are equal to the assessment, there is nothing to move a court of equity to intervene by injunction, *258Hence the answer of the city in this case sets up a good reason and defense why an injunction should not be allowed.

¶2This we believe to be in accord with the principles underlying Schroder v. Overman, 61 Ohio St. 1 [55 N. E. Rep. 158; 47 L. R. A. 156], and Walsh v. Sims, 65 Ohio St. 211 [62 N. E. Rep. 120].

¶3Judgment reversed.

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