Avery & Sons Inc. v. City of Atlanta

After the completion of the Spring Street viaduct the City of Atlanta, under the provisions of its charter- to which *592we shall hereafter refer, determined, in response to an insistent and general demand, to widen and extend Madison Avenue through to Whitehall Street, thus connecting Spring Street, Madison Avenue, so widened and extended, and Whitehall Street, and making a thoroughfare through both north and south Atlanta. To accomplish this purpose the city determined to create a special tax district and to levy sufficient assessments upon the realty located in said district to raise the…