Wright v. Burton

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1981 the appellee Ronald L. Burton, the municipal judge of the city of Conway, held in a criminal case in his court that two ordinances adopted earlier that year by the Conway city council were unconstitutional. That decision threatened to result in substantial losses of revenue to the city. The mayor and the members of the city council brought this action against Judge Burton, his court clerk, and the chief of police, for a declaratory judgment upholding the ordinances. This appeal by the mayor and council is from a declaratory judgment holding the ordinances to…