Chastain v. City of Little Rock

Appellants, inhabitants of certain territory adjoining Little Rock on the southwest, seek by this appeal to reverse judgment of the circuit court, by which their petition to incorporate this territory into a town to be known as “West Little Rock” was denied, and by wbicb the petition of the city of Little Rock to annex the same territory was granted.

Twenty-seven residents of this territory, on March 2, 1943, filed in the Pulaski county court petition for incorporation under the provisions of §§ 9786-9788, inclusive, of Pope’s Digest of the laws of Arkansas.

On the night of March 3, 1943, there…