Chastain v. Davis

I have realized for sometime that cities in Arkansas are pretty well able to annex anything within a hundred miles of the corporate limits, provided they follow the general course of the law. However, until this time I did not realize we were going to release them from the obligation to comply with the general format of the annexation laws.

The mischief in this case is allowing the petitioners to file an amended annexation petition incorporating the signatures of a previous petition that had a defective description of the area sought to be annexed. I will briefly describe what happened.

The…