Echols v. Trice
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; The remonstrants complied with section 2 of the Act, and valid reasons are assigned for the removal of their names from the original petition. The case in 75 Ark. 154 is not a similar one. See 40 Ark. 290. The appellees pro sese. The reasons given are not valid ones, or “for good cause shown.”
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Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; The remonstrants complied with section 2 of the Act, and valid reasons are assigned for the removal of their names from the original petition. The case in 75 Ark. 154 is not a similar one. See 40 Ark. 290. The appellees pro sese. The reasons given are not valid ones, or “for good cause shown.” See Webster Diet, and Bouvier Law Dictionary; 75 Ark. 154; 51 Id. 164; 40 Id. 290; 70 Id. 175. The reasons assigned are mere statements of opinion, not supported by any proof. All these reasons existed when remonstrants signed the original…
1Opinion of the CourtHumphreys, J.
Appellants were remonstrants against the organization of Road Improvement District No. 1, to construct a rock road from Cotton Plant, in Woodruff County, to the Prairie County line, under Act 338 of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas for the year 1915. They had signed the original petition for the creation of the district, but when the petition was presented to the county court for hearing, they sought to withdraw their names and property from the petition for the following reasons:
First. “That upon a thorough examination of the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas,…
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