Brown v. City of Arkansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to require the city of Arkansas City to provide suitable rooms for holding the city court in that city and to provide suitable furniture, fuel, lights and necessary incidental expenses of such court as required by R. S. 20-1411.

The purpose of the action is to test the validity of city ordinance No. 886, repealing an earlier ordinance, No. 844, which established a city court in the city of Arkansas City under the provisions of R. S. 20-1401 to 20-1423 and 20-1401 as amended. The defendant *454city of…