Henry v. Tarpley

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

This appeal involves the constitutionality of Act 107 of the 1959 Legislature. On a hearing, the trial court held the Act unconstitutional on two grounds: (1) that it violates Amendment No. 40 to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas and, (2) that it also violates Amendment No. 14 for the reason that it was special and local in its effect.

Since we have concluded that the Act clearly, we think, violates Amendment 40 on two grounds, which we shall point out it becomes unnecessary to consider whether it violates Amendment 14.

A brief summary of Act 107 may…