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BENEDICT v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 315.

250 U.S. 321 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 476

63 L.Ed. 1005

BENEDICT v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leon Abbett, with whom Mr. Charles K. Allen was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Terence Farley, with whom Mr. William P. Burr and Mr. George P. Nicholson were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1874 commissioners theretofore appointed by special act (Laws N.Y. 1871, c. 765) to improve the streets of Long Island City were directed to improve a particular district. Laws N.Y. 1874, c. 326. The act provided that the cost of the improvement should be assessed upon the land benefited and created a lien upon the land for the assessment and interest; but it declared that no sale for failure to pay the assessment...

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