City of McComb v. Barron

The appellant, the city of McComb, filed its bill in the chancery court of Pike county, seeking to recover one hundred sixty-four dollars and thirty-two cents, alleged to be due it by -virtue of an assessment of that amount against a lot owned by the appellee, Barron, for the construction of a special improvement, to-wit, a sidewalk. The original bill was based on a statement of the amount of the assessment without setting out the resolution of the board of supervisors levying the assessment against the property owners of the city. To this bill a demurrer was filed, which was by the court…