Des Arc Watershed Improvement District v. Finch

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

This litigation was originally before this Court in Des Arc Bayou Watershed Improvement District v. Finch, 271 Ark. 603, 609 S.W. 2d 70 (1980); we held that appellee, a landowner, could recover his attorneys’ fees if appellant, the condemnor, had acted in bad faith in instituting and then later abandoning condemnation proceedings. We remanded for a finding by the trial court on the issue of bad faith. On remand, the White County Circuit Court found that appellant had acted in bad faith and that appellee could recover his attorneys’ fees; on appeal from that…