Rucker v. Mayor of Dyersburg

This is a suit brought in the chancery court of Dyer county, under the Declaratory Judgments Act by the property owners on Finley street, in the town of Dyersburg, Tennessee, in order to haye the status of themselves and the town of Dyersburg determined and to prevent the mayor and aldermen from collecting from the said property owners two-thirds of the cost of repairing Finley street, under an ordinance ■ passed in 1924.

The chancellor’s findings of fact are as follows:

“The complainants each own property abutting on that portion of Flinley street inclhd/ed within the improvement district…