City of South Fulton v. Parker

The original bill in this cause was filed by the City of South Fulton against a number of property owners, to enforce an apportionment of a special assessment, representing the cost of paving two of the streets of the city, with concrete and gravel. The property owned by each of the defendants is described and identified in the bill by metes and bounds, together with the amount of the assessment apportioned to each such lot.

The bill avers that the assessments were made pursuant to an ordinance of the city government, enacted by the city under the authority of Private Acts of 1927, chapter…