City of Little Rock v. Parish
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. J. W. Martin, Circuit Judge. Act of March 9,1877, unconstitutional. It is a special act. Art. XII, sec. 2; 20 Ohio St., 18; 4 Kansas, 124; 5 la., •603 ; 15 Ohio St., 21; 2 Dillon, Ct. Gt. JRep., 353. Organization of corporations must be by “general laws,” Art. XII, sec. 3, Const.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. J. W. Martin, Circuit Judge. Act of March 9,1877, unconstitutional. It is a special act. Art. XII, sec. 2; 20 Ohio St., 18; 4 Kansas, 124; 5 la., •603 ; 15 Ohio St., 21; 2 Dillon, Ct. Gt. JRep., 353. Organization of corporations must be by “general laws,” Art. XII, sec. 3, Const. Boundaries fixed in the general law of March 9,1875, sec. 5. Legislature can pass no special act conferring corporate powers (Art. XII, sec. 3), nor pass a special act, where ageneral act can be made applicable. (Ib., Art. X, sec. 25). Courts competent to judge of this. 9 Iowa,…
1Opinion of the Court
STATEMENT.
Eakin, J.
The appellant applied by petition to the circuit judge, for a writ of mandamus against the county clerk, showing:
That, in 1872, Benj. T. DuVal laid off certain property adjacent to the city, into lots and blocks, for the purpose of adding them thereto, under the name of “ DuVal’s addition,” and made put his bill of assurance and caused it to be recorded, with a plat of the property as laid off, in the recorder’s office of the county.
It claims that, by virtue of the act of April 28, 1873, said addition became apart of the city, and shows that persons residing therein…
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