City of Jonesboro v. Arnold

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an appeal by the City of Jonesboro from a chancery court decree holding that the city was arbitrary in denying appellee Paul Arnold’s application to rezone his 11 acre tract of land within the city limits of Jonesboro from R-l to R-2 classification. On appeal to this court the city contends that the chancellor’s finding that the dty acted arbitrarily, capriciously and unreasonably in refusing the rezoning request, was contrary to the preponderance of the evidence. We do not agree with this contention.

It appears from the record that there are three…