Howard v. Etchieson

MiNOR W. Millwee, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by seventeen residents and home owners in the city of Blytheville, Arkansas, to enjoin appellants from building and establishing a funeral home in a strictly residential section of the city. The appeal is from a decree granting the relief prayed.

Appellants applied to the City Engineer for a permit to construct the funeral home pursuant to an ordinance which.makes it unlawful to erect any building to be used for business purposes in a residential section, where property owners in the immediate vicinity protest, until a permit to do so is…