Hill v. Echols
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Chancery Court, Southern District; A. L. Hutchins, Chancellor; 1. The description of the road to be improved is too vague and indefinite for identification. The agency provided for approving the plans and for levying assessments is not sufficiently designated and the court to enforce the assessments is not definitely specified.
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Appeal from Woodruff Chancery Court, Southern District; A. L. Hutchins, Chancellor; 1. The description of the road to be improved is too vague and indefinite for identification. The agency provided for approving the plans and for levying assessments is not sufficiently designated and the court to enforce the assessments is not definitely specified. The act does not designate with certainty an agency to make the levy nor the court to collect the assessments. 36 Ark. 331. The authorities are too numerous to cite. The act does not provide for the collection of delinquent assessments on the land…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCHLLOCH, C. J.
Appellants are owners of land in a road improvement district in Woodruff County, created by a local statute enacted by the General Assembly of 1919, at the regular session (Act 402, p. 1693), and they instituted this action against the commissioners of the' district to restrain proceedings on the ground that the statute is void and unenforceable.(1) One of the grounds for the attack on the validity of the statute is that the description of the road to be improved is too vague for identification. The clause of the statute describing the road reads as follows:
“Beginning at the east corporate…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Van Dyke v. MackSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1919
- Cumnock v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1919
- Milwee v. TribbleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1919
3Cited by13 opinions
- Stone v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1973
- Easley v. PattersonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- Bulloch v. Dermott-Collins Road Improvement DistrictSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1922
- Neterer v. DickinsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1922
- Fugett v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1945
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