Kelley Trust Co. v. Paving Improvement District No. 47

Hart, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). Numerous persons, who were citizens of Fort Smith and property owners in the proposed improvement district, joined in the suit and attacked the validity of the assessment of benefits on the ground that it was so excessive and discriminatory as to render it arbitrary and void. The burden was upon them as attacking the validity of the assessment as a whole to prove that it was made upon the wrong basis or that it was arbitrary and void. Turner v. Adams, 178 Ark. 67, 10 S. W. (2d) 41, and Lenon v. Street Improvement District No. 512, 181 Ark. 318, 26 S. W.…