HANCOCK v. CITY OF MUSKOGEE

No. 360.

250 U.S. 454 (1919)

HANCOCK ET AL. v. CITY OF MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin B. Blakeney, Mr. J. Harvey Maxey, Mr. Grant Foreman and Mr. James D. Simms for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Nathan A. Gibson and Mr. Joseph L. Hull for defendants in error. Mr. Thomas L. Gibson was on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiffs in error, owners of real estate in the City of Muskogee, brought suit in an Oklahoma state court seeking an injunction to restrain the city and its officials from encumbering their lands with a special assessment to pay for the construction of a sewer in Sewer District No. 12 of that city; contending that the statutes of the State and the ordinances of the...

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