Case: SHUMATE v. HEMAN
Abbreviation: Shumate v. Heman
Decision Date: 1901-04-29
Docket Number: No. 550
Citation: 181 U.S. 402
Volume: 181
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: SHUMATE v. HEMAN.
Judges: 
Pages: 402–403

Head Matter:
SHUMATE v. HEMAN.
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI.
No. 550.
Argued February 27, 1901.
Decided April 29, 1901.
French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co... again followed in holding that the contract in question in this case made for the construction of a sewer and the assessment against the property pf the plaintiff in error for the cost of making it were not null and void.
The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. Q. B. Webster for Shumate. Mr. Hiram J. Grover and Mr. Hamilton Grover .were on his brief.
Mr. David Goldsmith for Neman. Mr. Robert E., OolUns and Mr. II. P. Rodgers were on bis brief.

Opinion:
Mb. Justice Shiras
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit brought in the Circuit Court of the city of St. Louis by August Neman to enforce payment of a special tax bill issued in his favor by that city for the construction' of a sewer in what is called Euclid avenue sewer district. The plaintiff recovered a judgment, and the defendants, who were owners of property assessed for the cost of making said sewer, appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri, where the judgment of the trial court was affirmed, the case being reported as Heman v. Allen, 156 Mo. 534; and after such affirmance the defendant brought the case to this court by writ of error.
The only question which is open to our consideration upon this record is the contention of the plaintiff in error, that the provisions of the charter of the city of St. Louis, the ordinances of the municipal assembly, the contract with the defendant in error made thereunder, and the assessment against the property of the plaintiff in error for the cost of the construction of said sewer, were null, void and of no effect, for the reason that they were repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the 'Constitution of the United States, as construed and applied in-the case of Norwood v. Baker, 172 U. S. 269.
This contention has been considered and determined, under a similar state of facts, by this court, in the recent case of French v. The Barber Asphalt Paving Company, ante, 324, in error to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, and upon the authority of that case the judgment of the Supreme Court of Missouri is
Affirmed.