Heber Springs School District v. West Side School District

I concur in the results reached by the majority in this case but for a paritally different reason.

The majority correctly cites many prior Arkansas cases supporting the opinion; however, I am of the belief that this situation is clearly local or special legislation as defined in Amendment Fourteen as initiated and approved by the citizens of Arkansas in 1926. The obvious intent of Amendment Fourteen was to prevent the abuse of passing local and special laws which had previously been authorized in article 5, § 24, 25 and 26. As far as I am concerned, our past decisions are a hopeless conflict…