Monroe v. Culpepper

Appellant Monroe filed this suit in the Columbia Chancery Court against appellees, as commissioners of Street Improvement District No. 9 of the City of Magnolia, Arkansas. Validity of the ordinance creating the'District was challenged on two grounds: (1) The description of the boundaries of the district was fatally defective. (2) The directions to the commissioners as to the improvements to be made were so indefinite as to “ clothe the commissioners with a roving commission which would be controlled only by their own discretion,” in violation of the rule laid down in Cox v. Road Imp. Dist.…