Town of Macon v. Patty
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Noxubee County. Hon. James M. ArNold, Judge. The charter incorporating the town of Macon provides that the board of mayor and aldermen shall have power, Avithin the town, by ordinance, to assess, levy, and collect taxes ; to make regulations to secure the general health of the town; to prevent, abate, and remove nuisances at the expense of owners or occupants upon whose grounds they may exist; to establish, widen, grade, pave, or otherwise…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Noxubee County. Hon. James M. ArNold, Judge. The charter incorporating the town of Macon provides that the board of mayor and aldermen shall have power, Avithin the town, by ordinance, to assess, levy, and collect taxes ; to make regulations to secure the general health of the town; to prevent, abate, and remove nuisances at the expense of owners or occupants upon whose grounds they may exist; to establish, widen, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, and to clean them and keep them in repair; to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to…
1Opinion of the CourtGeorge, C. J.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Macon passed an ordinance in September, 1873, by which they required every owner or claimant of a lot fronting any public street in said town, to make a sidewalk of certain specified dimensions along the whole of his property, and to keep the same in repair, when required to do so by a resolution of the board. The sidewalks within certain defined limits on Jefferson Street were required to be of whole brick; all other sidewalks were to be of brick, plank, sand, gravel, or other substance capable of being smooth and hard. It was also provided that…
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