Hilliard v. Bunker
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Chicot Circuit Court iu Chancery. Marcus L. Hawkins, Judge. The appropriation was made by the county court aba time when the law did not provide for the holdiug of said court, and hence is coram non juclice and void. '2 Ark. 229; 20 Ark. 77; 27 Ark. 414; 32 Ark. 687; Sand. & H. Dig., § 1163. The court will take judicial notice that October 2, 1899, was the first Monday in October. 38 Ark. 548. The court for levying taxes and making appropriations is a county…
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Appeal from Chicot Circuit Court iu Chancery. Marcus L. Hawkins, Judge. The appropriation was made by the county court aba time when the law did not provide for the holdiug of said court, and hence is coram non juclice and void. '2 Ark. 229; 20 Ark. 77; 27 Ark. 414; 32 Ark. 687; Sand. & H. Dig., § 1163. The court will take judicial notice that October 2, 1899, was the first Monday in October. 38 Ark. 548. The court for levying taxes and making appropriations is a county court, within § 1163, Sand. & H. Dig. 32 Ark. 687. The chancery court has jurisdiction, and injunction is the proper and…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
This is a bill in chancery to enjoin the court house and jail commissioners of Chicot county from letting a contract to build a court house and jail at Lake Village, as ordered by the county court. The bill sets up various objections to the proceedings of the county court, both as a tax levying and appropriation court, and while sitting as the ordinary county court; to all of which objections the defendants interposed a demurrer, assigning sundry grounds therefor. Most of the allegations to which the several specific demurrers are interposed are mere averments of objections to the manner in…
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