Jackson v. Foster
Decision Date | 11 May 1936 |
Docket Number | 4-4328 |
Citation | 94 S.W.2d 113,192 Ark. 712 |
Parties | JACKSON v. FOSTER |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Benton Chancery Court; Lee Seamster, Chancellor affirmed.
Decree affirmed.
Jeff R. Rice and J. T. McGill, for appellants.
Bernal Seamster, for appellee.
This action was begun by appellees, who are residents and owners of real property in Paving District No. 1 in the city of Bentonville, Arkansas, against the appellants for a restraining order, restraining appellants from wrongfully using State Aid Funds, and from discriminating between real property-owners in said improvement district.
The appellees' property is not located on the State highway. The improvement district owes approximately $ 54,000 bonded indebtedness. This indebtedness is a lien on all the real property in the improvement district. The State of Arkansas delivered to the commissioners of said district $ 30,385.33 State Aid Bonds to be used as provided by law. The commissioners have applied $ 4,000 of said bonds to the reduction of the bonded indebtedness.
On August 15, 1935, the commissioners of said district adopted the following resolution:
The appellants filed answer, and the case was tried on the following agreed statement of facts:
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