BURROUGHS v. INGRAM

No. 93-1061.

893 S.W.2d 319 (1995)

319 Ark. 530

Thomas BURROUGHS, Rev. Robert Nelson, Jr., Sidney A. Warner, Jr., Elbert Smith, Wanda Hensley, Lillian Hodges, Earl Allen, Barry E. Brown, Individually and as Representatives of a Class of Persons Known as the Residents of West Memphis, Arkansas, Appellants, v. Mayor Keith INGRAM, Roberta Jackson, Sam Lehr, Randy Dalton, James Cooper, Maggie Boals, Pritchard Horton, Gehric Bruce, James Pulliam, Tracy Catt, Al Boals, Sherry Anderson, Mike Murphy, Jack Hogan, Jim Featherston, Loutelious Holmes, the City of West Memphis, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Everett, Marked Tree, for appellants.

Kent J. Rubens, David C. Peeples, West Memphis, appellees.


DUDLEY, Justice.

Special meetings of the West Memphis City Council were called, before December 3, 1992, under the authority of Ordinance No. 219. The ordinance provided that a special meeting could be called only when all members of the council either were present or waived notice of the meeting in writing. The ordinance was adopted in 1952 and governed special meetings of the City Council for forty years. On December...

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