Lippert v. Toledo (Clty)

Citations

• 19 Ohio C.C. Dec. 345
• 9 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 455

Syllabus

<p>ASSESSMENTS — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — STREETS.</p> <p>Haynes, Parker and Wildman, JJ.</p> <p>1. When Council to Apportion Stkeet ' Assessments.</p> <p>It is not necessary that the council should determine in advance of the „ assessing ordinance the proportion of the cost and expense of making a street improvement that is to be assessed upon the property abutting thereon.</p> <p>2. Effect of Apportioning Assessment in Preliminary Proceedings.</p> <p>The fact that the council may have, in the resolution and ordinances adopted and passed preparatory to the making of the improvement, indicated the proportion it intended to assess upon the abutting property, does not bar it from designating a different proportion in the assessing ordinance, provided it is within the limitations fixed by statute.</p> <p>[For other cases in point, see 1 Cyc. Dig., “Assessments,” §§ 169-195, 300-308; 6 Cyc. Dig., “Municipal Corporations,” §§ 1225 et seq. — Ed.]</p> <p>[Syllabus by the court.]</p>