Omaha Loan & Trust Co. v. City of Omaha

Ames, C.

Appellants were purchasers at mortgage foreclosure sale of three tracts of land situate in the city of Omaha. The sheriff’s appraisers deducted from the gross value of each tract, as found by them, a certain sum as being a lien thereon in favor of the city, because of a special assessment and levy to defray the cost of local improvements. After procuring confirmation and conveyances pursuant thereto, appellants brought this action to perpetually enjoin the city from enforcing the collection of the taxes, for the alleged reason that the tax proceedings were in violation of law and…