Platt v. City of Columbia

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

Action to recover of the City of Columbia the sum of $113.55, with interest, representing the amount of an assessment laid upon the abutting property of the plaintiff for street and sidewalk paving, under the Act of February 17, 1911, (27 Stat. 23), passed pursuant to a constitutional amendment ratified by Act of February 3, 1911 (27 Stat. 225), paid by the plaintiff under protest, and alleged by him .to have been illegally laid.

In this case, as in the case of Ballentine v. City of Columbia, 124 S. E., 643, recently decided by this…