Stanley v. City of Salem

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the fact that an improvement benefits the public generally “does not of itself overcome the presumption that the council was correct in determining that the adjoining property was specially benefited”
• “Special assessments can be levied upon property to the extent that property is specially benefited by the improvement for which the levy is assessed.”
• “The power to determine that an improvement is to be made and that a tax will be imposed to pay for the improvement is strictly legislative, i.e., for the city council.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).