Court Opinion

ID: 9825628
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:48:47.196539+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:13.528587
License: Public Domain

McHaney, J. Our attention has been called, on rehearing, to the provision of the next to the last paragraph of § 10 (b) of Act 385 of 1941, found on page 1053 of the Acts of 1941, reading as follows: “Provided further, that the amount due each district or municipality, as determined in sub-sections (a) and (b) of this section, when paid over to the Commissioners of such district or municipality, shall be used' exclusively for the purpose of paying principal of and interest on the bonds of such district, and for no other purpose; provided further, that the annual tax levied, if any, on the assessment of benefits on the property adjacent to and contingent to the street or streets forming the continuation of the state highway shall be reduced proportionately in the amount paid hereunder, it being the intention of this act to credit the payments made herein to the benefit of said property adjacent to and contingent to the continuations.” It is contended that the second proviso of the above quoted provision changes the rule announced in the cases cited in the original opinion, and so it does, if valid, and, for the purpose of the opinion, we assume its validity. But we think this provision has no application to appellants for the reason that there has been no annual tax levied on the assessments of benefits on the property of appellants since the passage of Act 385. The present suit is one to enjoin the sale under foreclosure proceedings begun on August 19, 1940, for the tax on betterments due for 1936 and subsequent years, which resulted in a decree of foreclosure and sale and this decree was affirmed in Beloate v. Street Imp. Dist., cited in the original opinion. "We, therefore, hold that Act 385 of 1941 has no application here as it is prospective only in its operation. Rehearing denied.