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Show WOULD NULLIFY ASSESSMENT. Resident Object to Payment of Special Improvement Taxes. BpecuU to The Tribune oGPBN. -Sept. LV Suit has been atartedr in the dlstrh t c ourt by Henry W. ;w11llam and other residents of Twenty-third street between Monroe and Qutncy avenue- against the city commissioners com-missioners in an effort t" have special assessments in a curb and gutter district declared null and void. It Is also desired de-sired to have the commissioners restrained re-strained from collecting such tax. It Is alleged that one year afrer ;i sidewalk side-walk had been '-on-tructed, the engineering engi-neering department selected a grade fourteen four-teen incrles lower for t.he curh and gutter. gut-ter. The lower grade. It is alleged, was not specified in the notice of intention and therefore the property owners did not protest at the Una. They also object ob-ject to paying the special assessment for grading In addition to that for curb and gutter. |