Wheat v. City of Bainbridge

To the levy of an execution for street-paving assessments, E. F.’Wheat filed an affidavit of illegality based upon the ground that the execution was issued under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly approved August 25, 1927 (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321), the same being an act to provide a system under which certain classes of municipalities may grade, pave, and otherwise improve their streets, etc., and that said act is unconstitutional and void, because in conflict with article 1, section 4, paragraph 1, of the constitution of the State of Georgia, which provides, among other things, that…