Cumnock v. City of Little Rock

(after stating the facts). The sole issue raised by the appeal is whether or not the city of Little Rock has the power to build a city hospital.

' In Spaulding v. City of Lowell, 23 Pick. (Mass.) 71, Chief Justice Shaw, speaking of municipal corporations, said: “They can exercise no powers but those which are conferred upon them by the act by which they are constituted, .or such as are necessary to the exercise of their corporate powers, the performance of their corporate duties, and the accomplishment of the purposes of their association. This principle is fairly derived from the nature of…