ESSEX PUBLIC ROAD BOARD v. SKINKLE

No. 262.

140 U.S. 334 (1891)

ESSEX PUBLIC ROAD BOARD v. SKINKLE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 11, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.W. Taylor for plaintiff in error. Mr. Joseph A. Beecher was with him on the brief.

Mr. J. Frank Fort for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Was the obligation of a contract impaired, or plaintiff deprived of property without due process of law, by the act of March 31, 1882?

The argument is that, because the real estate assessed might, in the absence of purchasers at the sale to enforce the assessment, be struck off to the board for the term of fifty years, under the 5th section of the act of...

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