Alexander v. Mayor and Bd. of Aldermen

This is a taxpayer’s suit against the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Natchez, Mississippi, attacking the validity of a contract between the city and a firm of expert property appraisers. No proof was taken, the decrees in the chancery court being on special and general demurrers. For purposes of this decision on the demurrers, we assume the facts properly pleaded in the bill of complaint to be true.

Several amendments to the original bill of complaint were filed by appellants, Alma Alexander, et al., taxpayers in the City of Natchez and complainants below, but since the decrees…