Case Name: City of Columbus v. Agler
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1886-01
Citations: 44 Ohio St. 485
Docket Number: 
Parties: City of Columbus v. Agler.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 44
Pages: 485–486

Head Matter:
City of Columbus v. Agler.
Municipal corporations — Assessments.
Error to the Circuit Court of Franklin county.
This case also arose out of the improvement of North High strSet, Columbus, under the invalid act of March 30, 1875 (72 Ohio L. 153). The facts distinguishing it from the case of City of Columbus v. Sohl, ante, p. 480, are stated in the opinion.
James Caren, city solicitor, Jones § Jones, and C. T. Clark, for plaintiff in error.
L. English, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The finding of the court in this ease
is that Mary J. Agler was not a petitioner, and that she remained silent until the improvement was made and the bonds of the city for the payment of the same had been negotiated; yet that she had knowledge that the improvement was being made at the time thereof. It is also found that her property was benefited by the improvement to the extent of four dollars per front foot, and no more. We think the judgment in this case should be affirmed. The act under which the proceedings forthc improvement were had was invalid, as held in State ex rel. v. Mitchell, 31 Ohio St. 592, and she was in no way a promoter of the same. There is nothing in her case to distinguish it from the decision in Wright, Treas., v. Thomas, 26 Ohio St. 346. Neither the city, in causing the work to be done, nor the contractor in doing it, were trespassers as to her, although the proceedings were invalid. The title to the street was in the city, and not in her. Its improvement-was no injury to her, and she could not prevent it by any proceeding she could adopt, as she might have done had it been an improvement upon her own land. She was not called on to do any thing until-steps were taken to make the assessment upon her property. This distinguishes the case from Kellogg v Ely, 15 Ohio St. 64, and similar cases.
Judgment affirmed.