Section 11-42-160
Continuation of rights of action against municipality annexed.
All rights of action existing against the city or town annexed shall be a right of action against the city or town annexing the other city or town, and a civil action may be brought against the annexing city or town the same as if the right of action originally existed against the annexing city or town.
(Code 1907, §1145; Code 1923, §1840; Code 1940, T. 37, §207.)