City of Boston v. James

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that when notice is returned, due process requires city to consult public records or make other simple inquiries
• municipality has constitutional obligation to provide notice to taxpayers of petition to foreclose rights of redemption
• “[W]here more efficacious service is shown to be unattainable within reason, publication ... may be held adequate as due process.”
• “duty according to particular circumstances to . . . consult public records or make other ordinary, simple inquiries”; property involved in decision was not land of low value
• “It is true that where more efficacious service is shown to be unattainable within reason, publication [or the like] may be held adequate as due process.”
• requiring further inquiries when notice was returned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).