Lenon v. Brodie
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Jesse C: Hart, Chancellor; 1. After the city council has appointed commissioners, names of petitioners can not then be withdrawn from the petition. Such a procedure could have .no other effect than to create endless uncertainty and confusion.
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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Jesse C: Hart, Chancellor; 1. After the city council has appointed commissioners, names of petitioners can not then be withdrawn from the petition. Such a procedure could have .no other effect than to create endless uncertainty and confusion. There is no provision in the law for protests, and the question presented here was not before the court in the Rector case, 50 Ark. 116; and the •Watkins case, 59 Ark. 358, was determined upon the issue that the district was formed for one purpose, and was converted into a district for an entirely different purpose.…
1Opinion of the CourtBattue, J.
This appeal involves the validity of the organization of “Street Improvement District No. 117,” of the city of Little Rock. On October 23, 1905, the petition of more than ten owners, resident in the district, was presented to the city council of Little Rock, asking for the laying off of “Street Improvement District No. 117,” including therein the real property for 150 feet on each side of Fifteenth Street from Main to Pulaski, Pulaski from Fifteenth to Sixteenth, and Sixteenth from Pulaski Street to Park Avenue.
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets run about east and west, and Pulaski Street and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lorain Steel Co. v. Norfolk & Bristol Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Little Rock v. KatzensteinSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889
3Cited by15 opinions
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- McMillan v. BrookfieldSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1921
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