City of Jackson v. Kinard

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the charter of the City of Jackson is this provision: " Sec. 42. Said mayor and aldermen shall authority and power to provide by ordinance for the issuance of executions against the property of any persons who shall fail to pay when due to said city any tax, license fee, assessment, or any liability for the use of water or lights; and all such executions shall operate as tax executions.” Acts' 1908, pp. 787, 801. In pursuance of this charter power, the mayor and aldermen of said city enacted the ordinance, a full copy of which is set out in the…