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· 8/14/1916

Shaser v. City of Olympia

Citations

  • 92 Wash. 466
  • 159 P. 756

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Public Improvements — Assessment Roll — Attack—Objections—Appeal—Statutes. Where the city had power to make the improvement and fraud did not inhere in the roll, an independent action to set aside a local assessment cannot be maintained by owners who failed to object and appeal from the confirmation of the roll, as required by Rem. 1915 Code, § 7892-23, although the proceeding was initiated prior to the passage of the act, since the assessment could be subsequently made under the act.</p>

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  • “attaching creditor may not have the same motives, or the same opportunity, to make inquiries respecting an apparent defect of title, as a second purchaser. But he must be regarded as such; and the law will not give him any superior rights”

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Judges: Bausman, Holcomb, Main, Morris, Parker

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