Gaines v. Waters
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Garland Chancery Court., Leland Leatherman, Chancellor. The board of health has no power to adjudicate or abate nuisances. The city council alone has this power, and it cannot delegate it. Sand. & H. Dig., §§ 5132, 5203; 29 Am. Rep. Í05, and note; 30 Am. Rep. 776; 37 Am. Dec. 271, and note; 96 Am. Dec. 311, and note; Wood, Nuisances (2 Ed.), 820. But even if the board of health had such power, the house in this case was not a nuisance per se. 16 Am. & Eng.
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Appeal from Garland Chancery Court., Leland Leatherman, Chancellor. The board of health has no power to adjudicate or abate nuisances. The city council alone has this power, and it cannot delegate it. Sand. & H. Dig., §§ 5132, 5203; 29 Am. Rep. Í05, and note; 30 Am. Rep. 776; 37 Am. Dec. 271, and note; 96 Am. Dec. 311, and note; Wood, Nuisances (2 Ed.), 820. But even if the board of health had such power, the house in this case was not a nuisance per se. 16 Am. & Eng. Enc, Law, 937,'and notes; Wood, Nuisances (2 Ed.), 24, 25. The official declaration of appellees could not make it so. 41 Ark.…
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