Walker v. Town of Waynesboro

March 5, 1946, the Town of Waynesboro adopted an ordinance extending the municipal limits by the addition of a uniform border one-half mile wide around the four sides of its former area. Appeal therefrom by interested citizens brought the matter to the circuit court. Code 1942, Sections 3378, 3379. Appellants tendered an issue of reasonableness, enlarged by ten separate specifications. The town met such tender with a general issue plea.

The first assignment of error attacks the sufficiency of the town’s plea. Section 3379 provides: “The appeal from the ordinance shall be to the circuit court,…