Pennington v. City of Sherwood

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The City Council of Sherwood adopted an ordinance that called for a special election to decide whether an unincorporated area should be annexed into the City. Subsequently, a majority of the voters approved the annexation. Appellants filed suit challenging the validity of the election. Their primary argument was that the ordinance’s legal description of the land to be annexed and the plat attached to the ordinance failed to “contain an accurate description of the lands to be annexed” as required by Ark. Code Ann. § 14-40-303(a)(l) (1987). The trial court refused “to…