Bryan v. City of Greenwood
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Leflore county. HoN. Joe May, Chancellor. Suit "by the City of Greenwood against E. F. Bryan. From a decree for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Leflore county. HoN. Joe May, Chancellor. Suit "by the City of Greenwood against E. F. Bryan. From a decree for plaintiff, defendant appeals. On June 4, 1912, the board of mayor and aldermen of the city of Greenwood passed an ordinance providing for the paving of certain streets and prescribing that the paving should be either bitulithic, creosoted wooden blocks, or vitrified brick, and that the work should be done in accordance with the plans and specifications on file. The ordinance was duly published, and, no protest against the paving having been filed,…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Appellant’s objection of the title of chapter 260, Laws of 1912, is ruled, against him by Mayor v. State, 102 Miss. 663, 59 So. 873, Ann. Cas. 1915A, 1213; University v. Waugh, 105 Miss. 623, 62 So. 827, L. R. A. 1915D, 588; and State v. Phillips, 109 Miss. 22, 67 So. 651, L. R. A. 1915D, 530. And there is no merit in his contention that the statute violates section 61 of the Constitution, for the legislature, by providing that the ■statutes therein dealt with should “be amended as follows,” manifestly ihtended that they should “be amended so as to read as follows.”
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- Board of Trustees of University v. WaughMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
- Mayor of Jackson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1912
- State v. PhillipsMississippi Supreme Court · 1915
- Edwards House Co. v. City of JacksonMississippi Supreme Court · 1907
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