Sellers v. City of Jackson

I am unable to subscribe to the majority view that engineering and inspection costs were properly chargeable to the appellants. The right of the City to assess to the appellants a proportionate share of engineering and inspection costs must be found in Section 3678 of the Mississippi Code of 1942, the pertinent parts of which are as follows:

< < The' governing authority of such municipality shall have power to pay out of its general fund, or out of any special fund that may be provided for that purpose, such portion of the cost of the proposed improvement as it may deem proper. Interest…