Mayor of Sugar Valley v. Mills

1. The Town of Sugar Valley was incorporated by act of 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 631). Section 1 of the act is as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, that the Town of Sugar Valley, in the county of Gordon, be and the same is hereby incorporated as a town, under the name of the Town of Sugar Valley. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested in a mayor and five councilmen, and by the name of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Sugar Valley they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and exercise all other corporate powers that may be necessary in performing…