Metropolitan Life Insurance v. City of Charlotte

The defendant city is authorized to make street improvements under the general law and by the express terms of its charter. The provision in its charter that “Where permanent street improvements shall be made, the property bearing such assessment shall not be so assessed again until after the expiration of ten years from the date of the last preceding assessment,” is a limitation of power which may be waived by property owners. Charlotte v. Alexander, 173 N. C., 515; Shepard v. Barron, 194 U. S., 553; Elliott on Roads and Streets, Yol. 2, paragraph 733; Wright v. Davidson, 181 U. S., 371;…