Ballentine v. City of Columbia

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

Appeals by both plaintiff and defendant from an order of his Honor, Judge DeVore, sustaining the first and third grounds of the plaintiff’s demurrer to the defendant’s answer and overruling the second.

The action is to- recover from the City of Columbia the sum of $602.85, with interest from April 20, 1923, representing the amount of an assessment laid upon the abutting property of the plaintiff for street and sidewalk paving, under the Act of 1911 (27 Stat. at Targe, page 23), paid by the plaintiff under protest, and alleged by him…