Case Name: The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Wyandotte, Appellee, v. W. W. Haskell et al., Appellants
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1916-02-12
Citations: 97 Kan. 304
Docket Number: No. 19,941
Parties: The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Wyandotte, Appellee, v. W. W. Haskell et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 97
Pages: 304–305

Head Matter:
No. 19,941.
The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Wyandotte, Appellee, v. W. W. Haskell et al., Appellants.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.
TAXATION' — Special Assessments — Sewers—Limitation of .Actions. A special assessment to construct a sewer was levied on land which it is claimed could not he drained or benefited by such sewer. Held, that having let the thirty-day period elapse for instituting an action to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin the levy, such defense is now barred.
Appeal from Wyandotte district court, division No. 1; Edward L. Fischer, judge.
Opinion filed February 12, 1916.
Affirmed.
E. S. McAnany, M. L. Alden, and T. M. VanCleave, all of Kansas City, for the appellants; Samuel Maher, of Kansas City, of counsel. •
Richard J. Higgins, of Kansas City, for the appellee.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
West, J.:
This was an action to foreclose a tax lien for special sewer assessments. The land was adjudged subject to the lien, and the owners appeal.
It was found that the special-assessments were ascertained and levied in 1903* and that no suit or action was instituted to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin the levy until the answer in this action was filed, more than eight years after such ascertainment and levy. The statute covering this case provides that—
"No suit nor action of any kind shall be maintained in any court, to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin the levy . . . after the expiration of thirty days from the time the amount due . is ascertained." (Gen. Stat. 1909, § 994.)
Authorities are cited to show that no right existed to assess the land in question because it could not be drained or benefited by the sewer, but under the rule now well established in this state it is too late to raise that question. (Rockwell v. Junction City, 92 Kan. 513, 141 Pac. 299; Rockwell v. Junction City, 93 Kan. 1, 142 Pac. 268; Railway Co. v. City of Chanute, 95 Kan. 161, 147 Pac. 836; Arment v. Dodge City, ante, p. 94, 154 Pac. 219.)
The judgment is affirmed.