SEATTLE v. KELLEHER

No. 29.

195 U.S. 351 (1904)

25 S.Ct. 44

49 L.Ed. 232

THE CITY OF SEATTLE v. KELLEHER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 28, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Mitchell Gilliam, with whom Mr. Walter S. Fulton was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Frederick Bausman, with whom Mr. Daniel Kelleher and Mr. G. Meade Emory were on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court declaring an assessment upon the plaintiff's land void under the Fourteenth Amendment, and enjoining the city against enforcing the same. The facts are these: Weller Street, in Seattle, runs east from Elliott Bay, and formerly stopped at the east line of Maynard's Donation Claim. The land now belonging to the appellee...

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