Hanchett-Bond Co. v. Payne Bros.

Lively, President :

This chancery proceeding was instituted by the Hanchett-Bond Company, a corporation, to enforce paving liens claimed by it by virtue of paving certificates issued by the city of Charleston to M; J. Smith, plaintiff’s assignor of said certificates, against seven lots owned by defendant, Payne Brothers Company, a corporation. Defendant denied the legality of the liens on the ground that there had been no dedication of the alley, paved by the city, to public uses. The decree of the chancellor, in which defendant charges error, granted to plaintiff the relief it sought.

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