Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board v. Newton

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

Pete Newton, doing business as Hampton Butane Company, sued the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Control Board of Arkansas and M. L. Blair, its director, in the Calhoun County Chancery Court, alleging, in effect, that he had been engaged in the butane gas business for about 11 years in Hampton, Calhoun County, Arkansas with a permit from the Gas Board; that the Board was attempting to cancel his permit in a manner not warranted by law and prayed for a temporary injunction and that upon a final hearing, that the temporary injunction be made permanent. On the same day…