PENNINGTON v. CITY OF SHERWOOD

No. 90-249.

802 S.W.2d 456 (1991)

304 Ark. 362

Ray PENNINGTON, Roger Brockington, Anthony J. Stankavich, Melba Guess, and Charles Greenfield, Appellants, v. CITY OF SHERWOOD, Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Supplemental Opinion on Denial of Rehearing March 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Ferguson, No. Little Rock, for appellants. Court of Appeals.

Bob Dawson, No. Little Rock, for appellee.


DUDLEY, Justice.

The City Council of Sherwood adopted an ordinance that called for a special election to decide whether an unincorporated area should be annexed into the City. Subsequently, a majority of the voters approved the annexation. Appellants filed suit challenging the validity of the election. Their primary argument was that the ordinance's legal description of the land to be annexed and the plat attached to the ordinance failed to "contain an accurate description...

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