Mount Vernon Trust Co. v. Lynn

The petitioner seeks by mandamus to cancel in part an assessment for a public improvement, the lien of which it claims had been sold by the city together with other annual tax liens on the property. The lien in question was not included among the items of the liens transferred. The provisions of the charter and ordinance in respect to public improvement assessment liens, as related to their due date and eventual collection, are not clear, and admit of contradictory construction. Under the circumstances, the right of the petitioner to the particular relief sought is not so clear as not to…