Hatcher v. Brown

The only question presented by the parties to this action is whether the refunder of the excess over the correct amount of a special assessment for the improvement of a road should be to the present owner of the property with reference to which the assessment was levied, or to the owner thereof who actually made the payments, the defendants admitting an intention to refund to whoever may be entitled.

The plaintiff acquired title to -certain premises upon which the assessment constituted a lien after the assessment was levied, and after her predecessors in title had paid certain installments of…