Scott v. City of Jamestown

The complaint alleges: The city of Jamestown has had a population of over 4,000 inhabitants for more than fifteen years last past; during all of this time the city has been divided into but 4 wards; in violation of the law the mayor and the city council have refused repeatedly to redistrict the city into six wards; on or about the 25th day of August, 1927 four civil suits had been brought against the city by riparian owners along the James Kiver below the city and that these suits for damages aggregate the sum of $84,000; one C. S. Buck an attorney at law of Jamestown is now and for several…