Legal Opinion
Lawson v. City of Mammoth Spring
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided September 23, 1985No. CR 85-73PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
The circuit court declared that the act creating the Mammoth Spring Municipal Court is not local legislation in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution. We reverse, squarely basing our decision on Littleton v. Blanton, 281 Ark. 395, 665 S.W.2d 339 (1984).
Act 905 of 1975 was passed for the express purpose of creating a municipal court in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, a town with a population of about 1,100 located on the Missouri/ Arkansas border in Fulton County. Salem is the county seat.
The trial court found, as the city argues on appeal, that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- City of Little Rock v. CashSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1982
- Littleton v. BlantonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1984
- Roberts v. WattsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
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