Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Hightower

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

The issue on this appeal is the validity or non-validity of a certain minute order which was adopted by the Arkansas State Highway Department, and which relates to the construction of access driveways to state highways from abutting property. The Chancellor found that the regulation, herein question, was discriminatory under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the equal protection clause of the Arkansas State Constitution. With this finding, the Highway Department’s complaint against appellees was dismissed, and, from the decree so…