Simms v. Sawyers
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Summers County. Bill by B. J. Simms against ¥m. H. Sawyers, Mayor, etc., of the City of Hinton, and others, to enjoin an election and the collection of taxes levied by the board of education. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
This litigation involves the constitutionality of chapter 23 of of the Acts of the Legislature of 1919, “Municipal Charters,” being an Act to amend and re-enact the various acts providing a charter for the city of Hinton, and also to create and establish the Independent School District of Hinton. By 'the terms of this Act it extended the corporate limits of the city of Hinton as then existing so as to include considerable additional territory, and also provided a scheme of government for the city, and pre*247scribed tbe powers and duties of tbe respective officers thereof, Tbe first…
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