Freeman v. Town of Gallup

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

This was an action instituted in the United States Court for New Mexico by Marion Freeman against the Town of Gallup. The facts are not in dispute. By conventional proceedings, the municipality created a street improvement district, levied an assessment against the abutting property, and issued paving bonds payable out of the proceeds of the assessment. Unless the owner of the property paid the assessment in full within thirty days after it became effective, it then was payable in ten equal annual installments, the first on or before June 1, 1932, and the others…