Mayor of Jersey City v. Lembeck
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the chancellor, whose opinion is reported in Lembeck v. Jersey City, 3 Stew. 554. The ease- made in the bill and answer was this: Certain assessments had been made for municipal improvements in Jersey City, which, it was alleged, were an apparent lien on the property of the respondent.
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On appeal from a decree of the chancellor, whose opinion is reported in Lembeck v. Jersey City, 3 Stew. 554. The ease- made in the bill and answer was this: Certain assessments had been made for municipal improvements in Jersey City, which, it was alleged, were an apparent lien on the property of the respondent. By an act approved the 26th of March, 1873, entitled “an act to adjust unpaid assessments in Jersey City,” the supreme court was authorized to appoint commissioners with power to examine and revise, alter and adjust all unpaid assessments that had been made within a certain period;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, C. J.
Upon looking into the pleadings in this case, it appears that the chancellor had before him the proceedings of certain commissioners, with respect to sundry municipal assessments, and that, after examining them, he annulled them by his decree, so far as relates to the land on which they were an apparent lien. The case is bare of all jurisdictional facts, except two, viz., that the assessments in question were not in litigation, and that they were ostensible encumbrances on lands owned by the complainant, and of which he was in possession.…
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