Lewis v. Albertson

The appellees sued the appellant to foreclose a lien on a certain lot owned by appellant in the city of Bedford, in Lawrence county, for a street improvement made by appellees as contractors with the city authorities, for $299.46, under the provisions of the act approved March 8, 1889. An answer of eleven paragraphs was filed, upon some of which issues were joined, a trial of which resulted in a judgment and decree for the amount claimed and foreclosing a lien.

Among the paragraphs of answer was the fifth, setting up that the resolution of the council declaring the necessity for the…