City of North Little Rock v. Linn

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This zoning dilute involves a lot in North Little Rock owned by one of the appellants, O. W. Nichols. On April 26, 1971, the city council adopted an ordinance changing the lot from R-l, a one-family residential classification, to R-4, a multiunit apartment classification. The appellee, a neighboring homeowner, then brought this suit to have the ordinance declared void. The chancellor set aside the ordinance on the ground that the decree in an earlier suit between the city and Nichols was res judicata.

In 1967 the city planning commission recommended the same change…