Alabama Traction Co. v. Selma Trust & Savings Bank

The bill is to enforce an asserted lien against the property of a street railway company, in favor of a municipality for the cost of paving the track, the spfice between the rails, and 18 inches outside of each rail, part of a public street.

The averments show the city of Decatur, a city of less than 6,000 inhabitants at the, time, undertook to assess the costs of such paving against the street railway company under authority of section 1374, Code of 1907 (Code of 1923, § 2189), which reads:

“Assessment as Against Street Gar or Railroad Tracies. — If there.be a street, electric, or other…