Robinson v. Taylor

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the mayor of the City of Pine Bluff to pay a retirement benefit to a former mayor of that city pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 24-12-123 (Supp. 1999). We affirm the trial court’s denial of the writ of mandamus.

On January 15, 1999, the appellant, Carolyn Robinson, a former alderman and mayor of the City of Pine Bluff, filed a motion for a writ of mandamus in the Jefferson County Circuit Court. She asked the court to issue a writ of mandamus directing Jerry Taylor, the…