Benton v. Phillips

This suit was brought by appellees, who owned lots 8, 9 and 12 in block 7, in North Benton, in the city of Benton, Arkansas, against appellants to prevent them from interfering with the construction of an ice plant and other business buildings on said property under the provisions of ordinance No. 1, zoning this and other property as strictly residential property, which was passed by the city council on February 26, 1935, alleging that the ordinance ivas void for several reasons, among them the failure to comply with act 1Ó8 of 1929 of the Acts of Arkansas authorizing cities of the second…