LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R. CO. V. BARBER ASPHALT CO., 197 U. S. 430 (1905)
Subscribe to Cases that cite 197 U. S. 430
Case Resources
Search this Case
in Google Scholar
on the Web
Google Web Search
MSN Web Search
Yahoo! Web Search
in the News
Google News Search
Google News Archive Search
Yahoo! News Search
in the Blogs
BlawgSearch.com Search
Google Blog Search
Technorati Blog Search
in other Databases
Google Book Search
Online Research Resources
Cornell LII
Cornell Wex Dictionary & Encyclopedia
LLRX.com - Legal Research
Expert Witness Directory
Nolo Consumer & Business
US Court Forms
USA Constitution Annotated
WashLaw Directory
World LII
Online Case Law
Cornell LII
FastCase $
Lexis $
LexisOne
Loislaw $
USSCPlus.com $
VersusLaw $
Link to the Case Preview: http://supreme.justia.com/us/197/430/
Link to the Full Text of Case: http://supreme.justia.com/us/197/430/case.html
U.S. Supreme Court
Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. Barber Asphalt Co., 197 U.S. 430 (1905)
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
v. Barber Asphalt Paving Company
No. 170
Argued March 7-8, 1905
Decided April 3, 1905
197 U.S. 430
Syllabus
In determining whether an improvement does or does not benefit property within the assessment district, the land should be considered simply in it general relations, and apart from its particular use at the time, and an assessment, otherwise legal, for grading, paving, and curbing an adjoining street is not void under the Fourteenth Amendment because the lot is not benefited by the improvement owing to its present particular use.
A system of delusive exactness should not be extracted from the very general language of the Fourteenth Amendment in order to destroy methods of taxation which were well known when the amendment was adopted, and which no one then supposed would be disturbed.
The facts are stated in the opinion.