City of Barling v. Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority

A NNABELLE Clinton Imber, Justice,

concurring in part; .dissenting in part. I concur with the result reached by the majority because the City of Barling’s attempted annexations of property in Fort Chaffee were void ad initio. FCRA raised the issue of whether Barfing had the power to annex a large portion of Fort Chaffee while it was still a federal enclave. If it did not, then the annexations were void ab initio. The majority holds, as did the trial court below, that the federal government permits a city to annex a portion of a federal enclave. However, the court asked and answered the wrong…