Bacon v. Mayor of Savannah

Simmons, Justice.

By an act of the legislature, approved October 1st, 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 537), amending an act approved . September 5th, 1885 (Acts 1884-5, p. 362), the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah were given power and authority to adopt an ordinance requiring the grading, paving or improving otherwise for travel or drainage, any of the streets or lanes of that city, and to assess two thirds of the cost thereof on the real estate abutting on each side of the street or lane improved; the street railway company with tracks running through the streets so improved, being required to pave the…