Wood v. City Board of Plumbing Examiners

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

The only issue of law involved in this writ of error is whether or not the judge erred in interposing a bar of laches to the plaintiff’s action. No specific time limit is set out in the ordinance as to the length of time within which an applicant for a certificate shall apply to the board of examiners for a plumbing certificate and have it issued to him without examination. No attack is made on the constitutionality of the ordinance in question. Code section 3-712 reads as follows: “The limitation herein provided shall apply equally to all courts; and in addition…