Cobb, City Clerk v. Burress

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

This appeal challenges the correctness of a circuit court judgment which awarded a writ of mandamus against the appellant, and thereby allowed a referendum on an ordinance of the City of Jonesboro.

On July 28, 1947, the city council of Jonesboro enacted its ordinance No. 757 levying a tax on certain occupations in that city. The ordinance was published on August 2, 1947, and for three successive weeks there-after-. On -September 20, 1947, appellee and others filed with appellant, as city clerk of Jonesboro, a petition for a referendum on said ordinance No. 757 — i. e.,…