American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Gray

John I. Purtle, Justice.

This appeal is from an interlocutory order denying an injunction to prevent monies being collected for the sale of motor fuels from being deposited into the state treasury and from being distributed to various state agencies, cities and towns. Appellants filed a taxpayers’ suit on May 27, 1985, attacking the constitutionality of Act 685 of 1983 claiming it to be an illegal exaction pursuant to Art. 16, sec. 13, of the Arkansas Constitution. The act levied a motor fuel tax upon certain fuels used by the trucking industry. A preliminary injunction was issued on the date…