Beecher v. City of Cordova

OPINION

MAASSEN, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A city evicted commercial tenants from city-owned land and was granted a money judgment against them for unpaid rent and sales taxes. The tenants left behind various improvements, as well as items of personal property related to their operation of a marine fueling facility on the land. The city pursued collection of its money judgment for several years before’ suspending its efforts; about eight years later it resumed its attempts to collect. The tenants, contending that they had reasonably, assumed by the passage of time that the judgment had been…