City of Mt. Vernon v. Evens & Howard Fire Brick Co.

In this an action of assumpsit, instituted in the circuit court of Jefferson county by the appellee company against the appellant city, judgment in the sum of $42.50 and costs of the suit was entered against the city at a term of the circuit court begun and holden in said county of Jefferson on the second Monday in the month of July, 1903, This 'appeal, prosecuted to reverse that judgment, presents for determination but a single question, which is, whether an act of the General Assembly approved May 15, 1903, (Laws of 1903, p. 144,) purporting to fix the times for holding a term of the said…