Balloun v. Archer

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

On August 16, 1962, Frank Balloun and 65 other landowners filed a petition in the Chancery Court, Dardanelle District, Yell County, praying for the formation of the proposed Smiley-Pin-Harris Creek Watershed Improvement District. The 66 petitioners alleged, among other things, that they were landowners within the proposed Watershed District, which was comprised of a total of 112 landowners, that their holdings represented a majority in acreage, and that pursuant to the requirements set out in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 21-906 (Repl. 1956), they represented a majority of…