City of Ballard v. West Coast Improvement Co.

Citations

• 15 Wash. 572
• 46 P. 1055
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 251

Syllabus

<p>ASSESSMENTS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS-ACTION BY CITY — LIMITATIONS.</p> <p>Where a municipal corporation has brought an action to foreclose street assessments on the theory that they had been levied by a duly organized and existing municipality, it cannot, in order to avoid the bar of the statute of limitations to its action, assume the position that its incorporation was void at the time of the levy of the assessment, and that the statute did not begin to run against it until the taking effect of a subsequent law validating the attempted' incorporation which had authorized the levy.</p> <p>An action to foreclose a street assessment, not brought by the' city within two years of its delinquency; is barred by the. statute! of limitations. .</p>