Ball v. City of Portsmouth

Citations

• 82 Ohio St. (N.S.) 151

Syllabus

<p>Requirement of municipal corporations — To pay costs of improvements — -At intersections of ■streets — Section 55 of Municipal Code — Interpretation of said section as to expense of surveying, etc.</p> <p>1. The provision of Section 53, Municipal Code of 1902, which requires the corporation to “pay the costs of intersections” when streets are improved includes all manholes, catch basins and tiling at intersections.</p> <p>2. The obligation which the section imposes upon the corporation with respect to the payment of expenses of surveying and advertising for such improvement does not exceed the requirement that “it shall nqt he less than one-fiftieth of such cost and expenses.”</p>