Downing v. City of Russellville

The appellee in the brief filed to support the application for rehearing states:

"The residence property of Mr. W. L. Chenault, an attorney of this court, constitutes a magnificent rural estate in the City of Russellville, Alabama, located in a populous urban residential area. The same was assessed for street improvements by the City Council in a large amount in the year 1927.

"In two successive trials of the appeal in the Law Equity Court, the amount of the assessment was fixed at $4,000.00 by two different Judges of the Law Equity Court, an amount radically less than the original assessment.…