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LAWSON v. CITY OF MAMMOTH SPRING

No. CR 85-73.

696 S.W.2d 712 (1985)

287 Ark. 12

Dwight C. LAWSON, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MAMMOTH SPRING, Arkansas, By and Through its Duly Elected Mayor, Honorable Jerry SMITH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

September 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Dean Kissee, Mammoth Spring, for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Clint E. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Arkansas Mun. League by David H. White and Winston Bryant, North Little Rock, for appellee.

HICKMAN, Justice.

The circuit court declared that the act creating the Mammoth Spring Municipal Court is not local legislation in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution. We reverse, squarely basing our decision on Littleton v. Blanton, 281 Ark. 395, 665 S.W.2d 239 (1984).

Act 905 of 1975 was passed for the express purpose of creating a municipal court in...

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