Town of Winnfield v. Jackson

In the month of November, 1930, a majority of the owners of real estate abutting Lafayette Street, between the east end thereof and the east side of Bevill Street, within the Town of Winnfield, Louisiana, petitioned the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of that municipality to pave the described section of Lafayette Street and to assess the entire paving cost against their respective properties.

Affected by this proposed paving program was a lot of ground then owned in indivision by Mrs. W.F. Jackson and E.H. Jackson, neither of whom signed the presented petition.

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, on…