Goldsmith v. George G. Prendergast Construction Co.

Citations

• 252 U.S. 12
• 40 S. Ct. 273
• 64 L. Ed. 427
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1656

Syllabus

<p>In apportioning the cost of a sewer, the assessing authorities excluded therefrom a city park from part of which the drainage was naturally .toward, and was’ to some extent conducted into, the sewer; but the amount so conducted was not shown to be considerable, nor did it appear that such drainage could not be disposed of by other means. The state courts having sustained the exclusion as within the discretion of the assessing authorities, held, that it could not be regarded as so arbitrary and unequal in operation and effect as to render assessments on other property invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 17.</p> <p>Refusal to transfer a cause from a division of the Supreme Court of Missouri to the court in banc does not violate any constitutional right. P. 18.</p>