City of Lexington v. Wilson's Estate

There was a former appeal of this case, Wilson v. City of Lexington, 153 Miss. 212, 121 So. 859, wherein an assessment in a paving proceeding was reversed and the cause remanded because the assessment was a mere scrap of paper — a nullity, the board of mayor and aldermen not being legally constituted to act at the time the assessment was made, as was pointed out in the former opinion.

After the cause was remanded, the appellant, city of Lexington, proceeded on the authority of section 8, chapter 194, Laws 1924, section 2565, Code 1930, to reassess the property, the applicable part of said…