Anderson v. City of Vestavia Hills

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an appeal pursuant to § 552, Title 37, Code of 1940, from a verdict and decree of the circuit court fixing a municipal improvement assessment lien in the amount of $1,200 in favor of the City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama (appellee), a municipal corporation, against a certain parcel of real estate owned by William N. Anderson and Mary Ann Anderson Rush (appellants). Under improvement ordinance No. 50 adopted by the City of Vestavia Hills, the City of Vestavia Hills originally fixed the amount of the assessment by proration on a front footage basis at $1,472.24. There was…