Jackson v. City of Little Rock

Frank Holt, Justice.

This class action involves an appeal from the chancellor’s decision granting appellees’ motion for a summary judgment. The chancellor held that the appellee City of Little Rock was under the responsibility to furnish services to the annexed area. Therefore, the City properly collected franchise taxes from appellants in the area during the pendency of the appeal to the Supreme Court from a circuit court order approving the annexation.

In 1973 and again in 1975, the City of Little Rock attempted to annex 55 square miles of contiguous lands. On both occasions the annexations…