McLean v. Fort Smith

Hart, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). To sustain the judgment, counsel for appellees invoke the power given by the Legislature to municipalities to destroy buildings which have become nuisances. Special reliance is placed upon our former decisions to the effect that the rights of property, like other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the Legislatures, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the…