Czech v. Munson

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The only question presented by this application for a writ of prohibition is whether a chancery court has jurisdiction to review a city clerk’s rejection of a referendum petition lacking the minimum required number of signatures, the facts being undisputed.

Last April the Board of Directors of the City of Little Rock passed an ordinance regulating taxicab companies. On the last day for the filing of a referendum petition Jim Hudson and others tendered to the city clerk petitions admittedly containing only 6,175 signatures. Under the controlling statute the minimum…