Cosgrove v. City of West Memphis

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

On January 10, 1994, appellant Bob Cosgrove was elected to serve as a member of the appellee West Memphis Public Utilities Commission (Commission) by a majority vote of the West Memphis City Council. Shordy thereafter, appellee Keith Ingram, the mayor of West Memphis, vetoed the election of Cosgrove. The city council subsequentiy defeated a motion to override the veto. Cosgrove then filed a second amended and substituted complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. He requested that the chancery court declare the veto exercised by the mayor to be invalid, and…