Arkansas Pollution Control Commission v. Coyne

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

The Arkansas Pollution Control Commission issued an order on April 23, 1971, wherein it refused to approve the use of septic tanks as a private sewage disposal system for eight houses proposed to be constructed by appellees, Charles W. Coyne, Doyle Shirley, Jr., and Raymond Donathan, on certain lots owned by appellees in unsewered areas in Hot Springs. On appeal to the Circuit Court of Garland County, the order of the commission was set aside by that court, the court holding that the commission had acted in an arbitrary and unreasonable manner in disapproving…