City of Clarksdale v. Fitzgerald

The mayor and commissioners of the city of Clarksdale had a part of one of the streets, Riverside avenue, .paved and undertook to assess a portion of the costs thereof to the abutting property owners, the appellees. From the proceedings of the board making such assessments, the abutting property owners appealed to the circuit court by means of a special bill of exceptions. The circuit court held the proceedings void and entered a judgment accordingly. From that judgment the city prosecutes this appeal.

The paving was laid in the latter part of 1936 and about completed before the mayor and…