Town of De Quincy v. Wood

O’NEILL. Chief Justice.

The defendant is appealing from a judgment enforcing a local assessment of a town lot by the Town of DeQuincy for the paving of a street and its sidewalks.

The paving was done under authority of Act No. 92 of 1934, which authorizes municipal corporations -to construct, pave and surface, or otherwise improve, streets, roads, sidewalks and alleys, or any part thereof, and to pay for the wprk by levying and collecting a local or special assessment according to the front-foot rule, on each lot or tract of land abutting the street, road, • sidewalk or alley to be improved.…