First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Galion v. Hayes

The narrow and singular issue in this mortgage foreclosure action focuses upon sewer charges levied against the landowner by the city of Mansfield and whether such charges ipso facto become a valid lien upon real estate deserving priority as against bona fide purchasers or creditors without either record notice or actual notice of such charges.

R.C. 729.49 provides in part:

“The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which has installed or is installing sewerage, a system of sewerage, sewage pumping works, or sewage treatment or disposal works for public use, may, by ordinance,…