Ray v. City of Lavonia

This case arose on a proceeding under the Civil Code (1910), §§ 445 et seq., to validate certain bonds of the City of Lavonia, Franklin county, before their issuance. The judge of the superior court set the hearing at Elberton, in Elbert county. Certain citizens and taxpayers of Lavonia were made parties to the *627proceeding, and objected to the proposed validation. They set np -in their pleadings, that section 446 of the Civil Code did not authorize the presiding judge to set the hearing at a place outside of Franklin county, and there hear and determine the cause; 'and that, if it did so, to…