Elliott & Horne v. Chambers Land Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment denying any relief, in its suit to foreclose certain liens alleged to have been acquired through street assessment proceedings taken under the Vrooman Act (Stats. 1885, p. 147). Several assessments, covering different parcels of land owned by the defendant corporation, were alleged to have been made, each of which involved an amount in excess of $25. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the complaint upon the sole ground, as appears from the argument of counsel, that the suit had not been commenced within two years after the recording of the assessment,…