CITY OF HARRISON v. BOONE COUNTY

No. 5-3260.

378 S.W.2d 665 (1964)

CITY OF HARRISON, Appellant, v. BOONE COUNTY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill F. Doshier, Harrison, for appellant.

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., by John P. Gill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a suit by Boone county to enforce a contract by which it leased certain county property to the city of Harrison. The city defended the case upon the ground that the contract was invalid in its inception and imposed no binding obligation upon the city. The chancellor upheld the contract and accordingly awarded the county a judgment for past-due rentals. We think the court was right.

In 1949 the county owned a rectangular...

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