Mayor of Morristown v. Davis

This is a bill filed on the 24th day of June, 1936, to enforce liens for unpaid balances on serial obligations for tax assessments levied on abutting property for street improvements, under chapter 501, Private Acts of 1911, as amended. The chancellor overruled a demurrer raising the bar of the statute of limitations of ten years, and defendant John R. King, only, has appealed.

• The hill shows that the assessments were made on the 25th day of August, 1925, on which day the first of the series of ten payments maturing annually became due. It was not paid, and became delinquent ninety days…