WHELESS v. ST. LOUIS ET AL.

No. 161.

180 U.S. 379 (1901)

WHELESS v. ST. LOUIS et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1901.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph Wheless for appellants. Mr. Minor Meriwether was on his brief.

Mr. B. Schnurmacher and Mr. Charles Claflin Allen on behalf of St. Louis and the President of its Board of Public Improvements, and Mr. Edward C. Kehr, on behalf of the Gilsonite Roofing and Paving Company, appellees, filed a brief; but the court declined to hear counsel for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill alleged that defendants were about, under the charter of the city of St. Louis, and the ordinance authorizing and directing the improvement in question, to impose the cost thereof upon the several lots of ground adjoining the improvement, in the proportion that the frontage of each lot bore to the total frontage thereon. And it was admitted that the various lots...

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