Swayne v. City of Hattiesburg

I dissent from both the construction of the statute by the majority opinion and the constitutionality of the stat ute with this construction placed upon it. I do not know whether I can strengthen the dissenting opinion in Stingily v. City of Jackson, 140 Miss. 57, 104 So. 465 et seq., hut the question is so important that I feel called upon to make some .additional observations upon these propositions :

In the .first place, I think the statute -authorizing the improvement to be made against the abutting property was intended solely to be applied where the abutting property was equally…