Walker v. City of Rome

The plaintiff in error, an attorney at law, brought suit in a justice’s court against the City of Rome, for services rendered as city attorney of the Town of East Rome. It appears that, in accordance with the provisions of the act of August 20, 1906 (Acts of 1906, p. 1010), the Town of East Rome was annexed to the City of Rome, and that the latter corporation assumed sovereignty over the former territory and the inhabitants of East Rome, and received, under the terms of the act of annexation, about $8,000 in solvent tax debts and in personal and real property, including about $280 in cash.…