City of Raleigh v. Raleigh City Administrative Unit

STACY, C. J., and BARNHILL, J., concur in dissenting opinion. Civil action to collect unpaid assessments charged for local improvements against several lots owned by the defendant in the city of Raleigh.

The defendant admitted the improvements were made and the assessments duly levied, but denied that the assessments were enforceable against its property, for that the same was owned and used exclusively for public school purposes. Defendant also pleaded the ten years' statute of limitations as a bar to all installments which became due ten years or more before the institution of the action. It…