Goodrich v. Detroit

Citations

• 184 U.S. 432
• 22 S. Ct. 397
• 46 L. Ed. 627
• 1902 U.S. LEXIS 2283

Syllabus

<p>Where a statute providing for the opening of streets requires notice to the parties whose laud is to -be taken for the street, the fact that it makes no provision for giving notice to the owners of land liable to be assessed for the improvement, does not deprive such owners of their property without due process of law, and is not otherwise obnoxious to the Fourteenth Amendment.</p> <p>The interest of neighboring property owners, who may possibly thereafter be assessed for the benefit to their property accruing from opening a street, is too remote to require notice of such improvement, in which they have no direct interest.</p> <p>No notice is required to be given to individual property owners of a resolution fixing an assessment district and levying a gross amount thereon for benefits, where the statute provides for a hearing in relation to the proportion each piece of property shall bear to the whole cost of the improvement, and an opportunity is given to the owner of the land to be heard upon the question of the benefit derived by him from the improvement.</p> <p>The fact that certain parcel® of land condemned for the improvement are defectively described, is no defence to a proceeding to assess benefits upon other property.</p>