Coward v. Nettles, Mayor

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes.

This is a controversy without action in the Original Jurisdiction of this Court, under the terms of Section 668 of the Code of Civil Procedure of 1932. The petitioner seeks to enjoin the municipal authorities of the Town of Lake City from imposing a' paving assessment against his property abutting on Carolina Avenue in said town.

Power to make the assessment is asserted under the provisions of the general amendment to Article 10 of the State Constitution of 1895 which appears in the printing of the Constitution in Volume 1…