Paving District No. 36 v. Little

Appellées, who were the plaintiffs below, owned real property within the limits of Paving District No. 36 in the city of Port Smith, and they brought this suit to cancel the ordinance of that city whereby the district was created.

Two questions are presented by this appeal. The first is whether the amendment voted on at the election in 1920 as Amendment No. 13 applies to municipal ordinances creating improvement. districts in cities and towns; and the second, whether the improvement district here in question was void because the cost of the proposed improvement exceeded the betterments…