Willard v. Presbury

Citations

• 81 U.S. 676

Syllabus

<p>1. Congress has power to confer on the city of Washington authority to assess upon the adjacent proprietors of lots, the expense of repairing streets with a new and different pavement, or of repairing an. old pavement. The tax need not be a general one on the city.</p> <p>2. A bill charging fraudulent misrepresentations in procuring the passage of an ordinance to pave a street, with the intent to cast on lessees of certain property on the street the burden (the lessees, by their leases, being bound to pay all taxes), and so to benefit the lessor’s reversionary interest, dismissed on proofs held insufficient.</p>