City of Clarksdale v. Harris

Mrs. Prank Harris filed a petition for mandamus in the Circuit Court of Coahoma. County against the City of Clarksdale, a municipal corporation, which had adopted Chapter 55 of the Laws of 1930, providing for a relief fund for firemen and policemen, and providing for the disbursements, regulations of the same, and how revenue should be raised for such purposes. It was alleged that the city came under the terms of the act, had adopted the provisions thereof, and that the funds were to be raised by a. one mill ad valorem assessment on taxable property situated within the city, by gifts or…