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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. LYON

No. 135.

161 U.S. 200 (1896)

16 S.Ct. 450

40 L.Ed. 670

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, v. LYON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Sidney T. Thomas and Mr. Andrew B. Duvall, for plaintiff in error, submitted on their brief.

Mr. Isaac S. Lyon in person for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia held that the effect of the applicable acts "was to charge the municipality, not with a direct indebtedness for the work done under its ordinance, but with the duty to work out a payment therefor by seeing to it that the cost should be charged as a lien upon adjoining lots, and by enforcing this lien and collecting the special tax from...

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