Davis v. Road Improvement District No. 7

Appellee is a road improvement district, created by special statute enacted at the regular session of the General Assembly in the year 1919 (vol. 1 Road Acts, 1919, p. 1205), and the commissioners of-the district instituted this action in the chancery court of Little River County to enforce payment of delinquent assessments. Appellants, who were owners of lands in the district, appeared and filed an answer, attacking the-validity of the statute creating’ the district as well as the validity of the assessment of benefits. The court sustained a demurrer to some of the paragraphs of the answer,…