Warren v. Branan

By an act approved December 20, 1899, the General Assembly of this State undertook “to incorporate the town of Kirkwood, in DeKalb county, to confer certain powers on the municipal authorities of said town,” and to .prescribe the territorial limits thereof. See Acts of 1899, p. 233. The present proceeding was instituted by certain citizens and taxpayers of that town, with a view to testing the validity of this enactment, they contending, among other things, “that the description contained in the act relative to the property to be granted for municipal purposes” was so indefinite and uncertain…