96 Pa. 186 | Pa. | 1880
delivered the opinion of the court, November 22d 1880.
. This act was passed for the protection of these municipal claims. They are, as was said in the case above cited, a charge against the property alone, and the proceedings on them are not personal but in rem. Previously to the passage of the act above mentioned, if a property was assessed in a wrong name, and the owner could avoid notice, he wholly escaped from his legitimate share of public burden; his property was improved and enhanced in value at the expense of the city.
The Act of 1871 is, therefore, a valuable one, and should be enforced' according to its intent and purpose. By it ample provision is made whereby the property owner may protect himself, and if he neglects to take care of his own interests he has no one to blame but himself.
Judgment affirmed.