Savage-Scofield Co. v. City of Tacoma

Citations

• 56 Wash. 457
• 105 P. 1032
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 925

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Improvements — Assessments — Rebates — Ordinances—Construction. 'A “rebate” allowed to “owners of the property” assessed for the pavement of a street, required by an ordinance to be paid into the city treasury by a street railway company to cover the cost of paving between tracks subsequently laid in the street, refers to the owners at the time the assessment was paid, under a strict construction of the statute; and a subsequent purchaser of a lot has no interest in the rebate.</p>