Butler v. City of Little Rock

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is a constitutional one involving the validity of the extra-territorial provisions of Act 186 of 1957, which Act provides for the creation of City Planning Commissions in cities of the first' and second class. The question arose in the manner and under the circumstances hereinafter presently set out.

The appellants on this appeal, Perry L. Butler and Horace Edward Meeks, each owned a parallel and adjoining strip of land containing 5 acres, each approximately 150 feet wide east and west and i,320 feet long north and south…