Court Opinion

ID: 6739684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:20:58.807314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:55.228073
License: Public Domain

Christianson, J.
(concurring). The publication of the necessary notices relating to an improvement, to be paid for by special assessments against the property benefited, under article 20, c. 44, Political Code, Comp. Laws 1913, is a proper item of the cost of the improvement. § 3726,- C. L. 1913.
A city has power, subject to the debt limit provisions of the constitution, to provide that not exceeding one-fifth of the cost of certain local improvements be paid by general taxation. § 3723, C. L. 1913. But it is averred in the return of the defendants in this case that special assessments were levied to pay all the costs of the improvement, including all expenses incident thereto. Hence, under the facts shown to exist in this case, the plaintiff’s claim was properly allowable against, and payable by warrant drawn upon, the special assessment fund; and plaintiff was not entitled to a warrant drawn upon the general fund of the city.