Hink v. Board of Directors of Beaver Water District

By this proceeding, which is apparently a test suit, the appellants as citizens and taxpayers seek to obtain a declaratory judgment and an injunction preventing the appellees from carrying out a proposed arrangement by which four cities in northwest Arkansas are undertaking to obtain a supplementary water supply. The chancellor found the proposal to be valid in all respects, sustained a demurrer to the complaint, and dismissed the suit.

For some years it has been the policy of the federal government to permit some part of the water impounded in federally owned lakes and reservoirs to be…