Chappel v. Carnahan

George Howard, Jr., Justice.

This is an appeal by a minority of the land owners in numbers as well as the amount of real property involved in a proceeding for the annexation of certain lands to the City of Russellville, Arkansas. Only one issue is presented, namely, the accuracy of the legal description of the proposed territory to be annexed inasmuch as the parties stipulated that the annexation petition contains more than 50% of the land owners in the area and that they own more than 50% of the land included in the petition.

The defect in the description complained of comes within the…