Township of Montville v. Block 69, Lot 10, Assessed to Spitz

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

This ease involves the constitutionality of the notice procedures prescribed by the In Rem Tax Foreclosure Act, N. J. S. A. 54:5-104.29 et seq. The corporate landowner, which moves to reopen a final judgment of foreclosure by the municipality, argues that the act’s requirements of notice by publication and posting fall short of constitutionally guaranteed procedural due process. In doing so, it challenges the continued viability of this Court’s decision in City of Newark v. Yeskel, 5 N. J. 313 (1950), which upheld these procedures against…