City of Seattle Records

To the Mayor and the Common Council of the City of Seattle Your petitioner avers that she is and was at all times hereinafter mentioned the owner of Lot 12 in block 5 of Rengstorff's Addition to the City of Seattle. That said lot was assessed under Ordinance No 1495 for the grading and sidewalking of Division Street, That on Feby 27, 1893 she paid the assessment amounting to $56.74 but beliving same to be unjust paid it under protest. That payment was referred by other owners of property affected or claimed to be affected by said improvement of Division Street and in a suit resulting from such refusal the Court determined that said levy and assessment was illegal and of no effect and the same was considered decisive by the City and a new assessment made which latter is now in effect. That your petitioner should never have been assessed for said improvement and in fact was not assessed under or on the new assessment roll now in effect her lot being 180 feet from Division Street. That having paid said sum of $56.74 as aforesaid she is entitled to a rebate of that amount from the City of Seattle