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3 Ky. Op. 203

Rogers v. Pfieffer

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 30, 1869

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1869-09-30

<p>Street Improvement — Grading and Paving.</p> <p>To authorize the power of assessing the property holders for street paving, grading, etc., the ordinance, and proceedings must be strictly legal.</p>

Decided 1869-09-30

¶1Opinion of the Court by

Judge Williams:

¶2The ordinance authorized the grading and 'paving alone. The contract went beyond the ordinance in providing also for doing the curbing and the apportionment warrant apportioned as against Rogers a pro rata part “for grading, curbing and paving,” as has frequently been decided by this court to authorize the extraordinary power of assessing the citizen, and giving a lien upon his property by which his property may be sold and he deprived, of it without his consent the proceedings must be strictly legal and as the contract and assessment warrant are both illegal no lien attached by reason thereof, and such was decided specifically by this court in Milcher vs. Obst and Rupert, Mans. Opinion, September 27, 1867.

¶3Wherefore the judgment is reversed with directions for further proceedings consistent herewith.

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