10/13/1920 Board of Public Works Minutes

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} Board met in regular session at 7- 15 P.M. John F. De Haven absent* Hearing had -on as$-essment .r:oll end f.inal�est a�rpipe sewer on Garst Street: from Michigan Street ta`1a �'�te -Street, � ,Zm ove t Res -htion Fo• 709. In ` the City of, S outh Bend., Indiana. Upon sa id hear ift memonstraters appeared and Written remonstrance, were filed.. Attorney . Crumpacker appeared before the Board and represented the Pittsburg C inc innat i Railway Company and filed written remonstrance and Miller Guy representing Heirs at lww of Carl Otto & Clara, F!oegley. After due eons iderat ion the Board deferred hearing until Wednesday Oat -*bar 20th. ,1920 at 7:15 P.M. The following remonstrances read and placed on file. State - of Indiana ) St. Joseph County : )SS Before the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,. in the Matter of the Stull Street Remonstrance against assessments by the Pipe sewer. ) Pittsburg , Cincinnati, Chicago & St. hou is Railroad C ompsny. The Pittsburg, C inc innat i , Chicago & S t . Louis Railroad Company, now remonstrates against the assessment of $415.32 of benefits against lot 19, in StulVe First Add it ion to the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana. now owned by it, upon the following grounds, and for the following causes, t owit s -• 1. The area of said lot 19 assessed for benefits is 55 ft. X 66 ft. whereas this remonstrator awns of said lot but 50ft. X 66ft. And the amount of 415.32 assessed is assessed SgainstL it as the owneir of 55ft. X 66 ft. of said lot. 12. ,And` for further- ground of remonstrance,, this remonstrator says that the part of said lot 19 owned by• it: is assessed for the construction of said sewer unequally with other lots and property occupying the same relation to said sewer as the part of said lot 19 owned by it occupies to the sewer, in this; That lot number 3 in said additim is assessed to the depth of 48 ft, only whereas the part,of said lot owned by it is assessed -to a de p�h of 66 ft. and lot number 49 in said Stull s Add it ion is assessed to s , depth of . 33 ft. only, . Whereas, as stated above, the part of said lot 199 owned by it, is assessed to a depth -of 66 ft. And -for yet a further ground of remonstrance; this remonstrator says that the beginning of said sewer is in the center of Stull Street and from 6 ft to 8 ft. distant from its right of way and any land owned by it or under its crontrolr _and that none .of its land, right-of-way or property abuts upon said sewer. . 4. And remonstrating against the assessment of $415.32 against the east 50 ft. of lot 20 in said Stull s Add it ion, . the remonstrator says that sa id lot will not be benef itted in any amount whatever by the construction of said Stull Btr*'at sewer because of the fact that the -slope and level of said lot 20 and of the right of way and property owned by it between said lot 20 and the Grest, Street eewor is such that the draiaage from said lot and the right-ofway is towards and into said Great Street sewer and not towards and into said Stull Street sewer. 5. For a further ground of remonstrance the remonstrator says that it owns but 50 ft. of said lot 20, being the ;East 50 ft,. thereof, and that it has been assessed as the owner of the east. 55 ft. of said lot. P. C. C. & L. RY. CO. BY SAM$EL PARKER. FILED OCT. 13s1921, BOARD 0 P PUBLIC WORKS BY G. A. �+ ._ ,