Ex parte City of Little Rock
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Petition for Prohibition. The power of amotion is incident to every corporation, 8 Kent. Com. §4-8-9; Angelí $ Ames on Corp. sec. 408-9, 27, 82; 5 Ind. 77; Grant on, Corp. p. 240, and is conferred by statute in this State. See page 273, New Digest, sec. 67, Law of Mun. Corp. The city council is not a court and the provisions of the Code (see. 681,) do not apply to it.
1Opinion of the Court
"WlLSHIRE, O. J.
■ On a former day of tlie present term the city council of the city of Little Rock presented to this court their petition, suggesting and informing us that one II. H. Pugh had applied to the Pulaski circuit court for a writ of mandamus, commanding the members of the said city council to refrain from further proceeding in the cause of impeachment instituted in said council for the removal of said 31. H. Pugh, as the solicitor of said city, upon charges preferred against him, and also commanding said city council to dismiss said proceedings against said Pugh.
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