Arnold v. Mayor of Knoxville

*198This cause questions the constitutionality of chapter 278, p. 585, of the Acts of 1905.

The act, in substance, provides for the creation of improvement districts in the city of Knoxville, and the payment of the expenses incurred thereby for public improvements by special assessments on abutting property.

The caption of the act, which sets out its purpose, is as follows:

“An act to provide for the creation of improvement districts for the purpose of opening, widening, extending, grading, curbing, guttering, paving, gravelling, macadamizing, parking, laying permanent sewers on, upon, or in any…