Ingram v. Board of Commissioners of Street Improvement District No. 5

Street Improvement District No. 5 of the city of Stuttgart was regularly and properly organized in 1916 to improve certain streets in that city. The ordinance levying assessments of benefits was passed August 7, 1916. Money was borrowed by the district to pay for the improvement, bonds were executed and sold and the assessments pledged for the payment thereof.

The district’s commissioners filed suit in its own name on October 5, 1934, to enforce payment of certain delinquent assessments. The town lots of appellant Ingram were included in this suit. At the time the district was formed Ingram…