City of Blytheville v. Thompson

In evaluating the question whether the chancellor’s determination that the city council acted arbitrarily, we must start with the presumption that the city council did not abuse its discretion, but that it has acted with reason and in good faith for the benefit of the public. Following any other course produces an unthinkable and intolerable result— the substitution of the judgment and discretion of the courts for the collective judgment and discretion of the city council, the body in which the lawmaking branch of our government has seen fit to lodge the zoning power. Wenderoth v. City of…