City of Knoxville v. Gervin

The city of Knoxville brought suit in the chancery court to enforce its lien for unpaid street paving assessments levied on abutting property by municipal ordinances enacted under the authority of chapter 278 of the Acts of 1905. The bill,.filed on April 20, 1935, did not aver the time when the lien was created, nor when the city’s cause of action accrued.

The defendants, property owners, filed a plea averring that the cause of action accrued on July 11, Í924, more than ten years prior to the filing of this suit, and was therefore barred by the statute of limitations contained in section 8601…