All suits which involve the right of any city to abandon any such property as a street or the unqualified and absolute fee simple ownership of the property free from the public easement therein for use as a street shall be deemed suits involving the public interest and shall be advanced in all courts and heard at the earliest practicable moment.Acts 1927, No. 40, § 4, p. 117; Pope's Dig., § 10031; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-3816.
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