City of Bluefield v. Johnson

Williams, Judge:

This suit is to enforce the lien of a special street paving tax assessed on defendant’s lot which abuts on the street. The right of the City of Bluefield, under its charter, to improve its streets and to assess two-thirds of the cost thereof upon the lots abutting thereon is admitted. But it is insisted that the assessment in the present case is void, because the ordinance providing for the paving was not passed by the council in the manner provided by the city’s charter. Section 19 of the charter relates to the passage of ordinances, and reads as follows, viz:

"All ordinances…