City of West Helena v. Davidson

I respectfully dissent because I think that the chancery court erred in holding that the action of the city authorities was arbitrary. I think the majority opinion is in error in ignoring decisions more recent than that on which it places its principal reliance—City of Little Rock v. Pfeifer, 169 Ark. 1027, 277 S. W. 883. In commenting on this case in City of Little Rock v. Parker, 241 Ark. 381, 407 S. W. 2d 921, we said:

The statute in force at the time of Pfeifer was Act 6 of the Second Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly of 1924, and cities of the first class were authorized to…