City of Jasper v. Sanders

The appeal by the city is from a decree overruling a demurrer to the bill, a direct attack on an assessment for municipal paving done, and in rendering a decree for the complainant.

A phase of this case was before the court in Jasper Land Co. v. City of Jasper, 220 Ala. 639, 641, 127 So. 210. The holding was that due process of law must be observed in proceedings by municipalities for improvements and the local assessments therefor, fixing liens on adjacent lands; that the recitals of the final judgment of the city authorities, as that the assessment rolls were on-file in the proper office for…