Board of Commissioners of Road Improvement District No. 9 v. Furlow

The road improvement district involved in this controversy was created by special statute, designated as act No. 377 of the extraordinary session of the General Assembly of the year 1920, the territory described as constituting the district being situated in Little River County. Section 1 of the statute, after describing the boundaries of the district by metes and bounds, provides that said territory is created into a road improvement district “to be known as Road Improvement District No. 9 of Little River County, Arkansas, for the purpose of improving such public roads, or roads to be…