Higgins v. Bordages

BROWN, Associate Justice.

—The city of Beaumont was duly incorporated und,er the general laws of the State. The city adopted an ordinance for the construction of sidewalks in the city, providing, that if the abutting property owner, upon notice, failed to make the sidewalk, the city would construct it, and the cost should constitute a lien upon the lot abutting upon it; and providing also for a foreclosure of the lien by suit in any court having jurisdiction.

William Higgins and his wife, Mary, were living at the time upon the lot in suit, as their homestead, and continued to live upon it as a…