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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This is an action in forcible entry and unlawful detainer by appellants, L. F. Thacker and ~W. T. Kitchen, against appellees, Steve-Hicks and wife, Tommie Hicks. This is the second appeal of the case. On the former appeal in Thacker v. Hicks, 213 Ark. 822, 212 S. W. 2d 713, we held there was ... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellee recovered judgment for $25,000 to compensate an injury which he sustained in a collision between one of the passenger trains of appellant railroad company and a taxicab he was driving in the City of Little Rock.
A motion was filed to dismiss the case upon the ground that the Clark County Cir... | [
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Holt, J.
Appellee, Erma Lee Piles, a minor, by ber mother, sued appellant, Sinclair Refining Company, and Jim Andas to compensate personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellant’s negligence when Erma’s mother, Mrs. Young, attempted to light a fire in a heating stove by using what was thought to be kerose... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
Upon the first appeal in this cause we affirmed the granting of a divorce to appellee but awarded alimony to appellant in the amount of $30 a month. Warren v. Warren, 214 Ark. 379, 216 S. W. 2d 398. Appellee’s failure to pay the first three installments resulted in a citation for contempt of court... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
The Beaver Bayou Drainage District was created by Act 92 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1907; and the Act was amended by Act 379 of 1911 and also by Act 154 of 1913. Then the Legislature, by Act 370 of 1920, confirmed the assessment of benefits in the District, and authorized the commission... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellant, Silas Harp, homesteaded an 80 acre tract of land about 1907 which he still occupies as a farm. The land is described as the W y2 of the SW % of section 15, township 17 north, range 21 west. He included within his fences about 30 acres that was not a part of his homestead, but was i... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice!
This appeal stems from the effort by appellees, as heirs of the original property owner, to have their title declared superior to that of appellant, Ed Pinkert, who holds by mesne conveyances from the improvement district which purchased the prop-, erty at the commissioner’s sale for the forec... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
Dan Burks died intestate February 27, 1947, owning real and personal property. Helen Scott, representing herself to be a daughter, was granted letters of administration March 4. Jesse Burks, residing in Detroit, was named in the application as the only other heir. On April 3d Lucile Giles ... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
The appellant, Bickford, through inheritance, claims an interest in Polk County lands owned by Bota Carden when he died intestate in December 1946. The. appellee, Grady Carden, has acquired title of all the heirs except Joe Carden Bickford, who says his father was Julius Carden, and that J... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
Appellant, Oina Fisher Ellis, brought this action against tbe personal representative and heirs of Mary E. Lawson to enforce an alleged oral contract by which Mrs. Lawson agreed to leave part of her estate to appellant. The contract is said to have been made in December, 1911, between Mrs. Lawson ... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This is a contest of the last will of Maurice P. Welsh who was a resident of Jonesboro, Arkansas, for 45 years prior to his death October 4, 1946. Decedent was survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Welsh Knollton of Phoenix, Arizona, and the following nieces and nephews: Margaret Welsh Fair-head ... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
This is an appeal by the City of Rector and its officials from a chancery decree holding void ordinance No. 223 of said city. The ordinance reads:
“AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION AND INSPECTION OF ELECTRIC LIGHT, POWER, TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH POLES WITHIN THE CITY OF RECTOR, ARKANSAS, AND PR... | [
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ROBERT L. BROWN, Justice.
Appellant Katie Zimmerebner Stehle (“Katie”) appealed the order of the circuit judge denying her motion for change of custody of her daughter, KZ, to the court of appeals. That court reversed the circuit judge’s decision and held that Katie should have primary custody of KZ based on a material... | [
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RITA W. GRUBER, Judge.
By criminal information filed in the Benton County Circuit Court, the State charged Uris Magana-Galdamez with the offenses of being an accomplice to capital murder and being an accomplice to aggravated robbery. The crimes were committed on December 30, 2006, when both Magana-Galdamez and the vict... | [
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PER CURIAM.
On November 27, 2007, a jury found petitioner Lee Mark Harris guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver and sentenced him to 960 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. The judgment was entered on December 14, 2007, and on December 10, 2007, trial counsel representing pet... | [
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JIM GUNTER, Justice.
This appeal arises from a decision of the Conway County Circuit Court denying Appellant Linda Stokes’s motion to suppress. We reverse and remand.
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PAUL E. DANIELSON, Justice.
Appellant Tony Bernard Johnson appeals from his conviction for attempted capital murder and his sentence to life imprisonment plus fifteen years, which includes an enhancement for use of a firearm. His sole point on appeal is that the circuit court erred in denying his directed-verdict motio... | [
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DONALD L. CORBIN, Justice.
Appellant Howard H. Neal, Jr., appeals his conviction for capital murder and kidnapping in the Pulaski County Circuit Court. Appellant’s sole point on appeal is that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow a witness to testify on the basis that Appellant failed to disclose ... | [
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PAUL E. DANIELSON, Justice.
The instant case is a no-merit appeal from an order of long-term protective custody filed by counsel for appellant Rufus Homer Adams. The order awarded long-term custody of Mr. Adams to appellee Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). Mr. Adams’s brief presents this court wit... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
In this suit on a promissory note, the primary question is whether the Chancery Court correctly evaluated the evidence on the issue of payment; and the secondary question is the rate of interest.
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellant, Freddie James, sued appellee, Claude James, for divorce alleging as grounds therefor general indignities and cruelty. In' his answer and cross-complaint appellee denied the allegations of the complaint and charged that appellant had been living in adultery since December 25, 1947. ... | [
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Ed. P. McFaddin, Justice.
This is an action brought by the owner to recover damages alleged to have been caused to his airplane by the negligence of the bailee.
Stover (plaintiff below and appellee here) was engaged in renting airplanes to licensed pilots. Hall (defendant below and appellant here) was a licensed pilot,... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
In ■ his complaint Horace C. Roark alleged that unless an equitable lien should be declared in his favor on designated property in Fort Smith, Lewis W. and Georgia Schneider as owners would be unjustly enriched by money the plaintiff spent on improvements. The Chancellor found that the cla... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
Determination of issues raised by this appeal centers on whether annexation proceedings involving school districts embracing territory in more than one county are governed by Act 327 of 1947 or Act 387 of 1939.
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Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.
Joseph Leo, Jr., left Gloucester, Mass., in 1948, arriving in Fort Smith July 4th. His suit for divorce was filed 62 days later, alleging cruelty, and separation for three jmars. The complaint was dismissed December 21 because the plaintiff was not a bona fide resident of Arkansas, either ... | [
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Leflar, J.
The City Council of Clarksville on May 31, 1949, adopted an ordinance authorizing the issuance, subject to favorable vote at a special municipal election, of $100,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which were to be used to contribute “to the cost of a factory building for the purpose of securing a new manufacturi... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellants filed in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Clay County a petition for certiorari to quash an alleged order of the Board of Education of that County, dissolving School District No. 76 and attaching its territory to School District No. 11. In the judgment from which is this appea... | [
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Per Curiam.
By petition for certiorari C. E. Carnes, J. S. Kreitzer, J. M. Thorns berry, Jack Winters, Jesse Barnes, and Robert Eaton have asked this Court to set aside their conviction on contempt charges. The controversy grows out of a complaint filed May 4, 1949, by Carl Tune. He alleged a contract with Ozarks Rural... | [
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Leflar, J.
Appellant William M. Pollock, Jr., owned an undivided one-half interest in the oil, gas and other minerals on a certain 20-acre tract in Ouachita County, Arkansas. The owner of the other un divided one-half interest had leased it to appellee Mc-Alester Fuel Company, and the Company was desirous of leasing Po... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
Stanley Jewel Johnson, 21 years of age, died July 5, 1948, from the effect of knife cuts and stabs found by the jury to have been inflicted by Robert Walker. The defendant has appealed from a judgment that he serve 21 years in the penitentiary for second degree murder. The motion for a new... | [
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Holt, J.
This cause is here on a second appeal. For a more complete statement of the facts, reference is made to our opinion in the former appeal, (Vanndale Special School District No. 6 v. Feltner, 210 Ark. 743, 197 S. W. 2d 731) wherein the judgment was reversed for error in giving a certain instruction and the cause... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Mrs. Virginia C. Wilson owns a farm in Jefferson County, -which, she rented in the year 1947 to G. E. Taylor for an agreed share of the crops grown on the land, the principal crop being cotton. She and her tenant filed this suit against Elms Planting Co., a corporation, to recover damages to their cr... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
This is a suit to recover on a policy of insurance against upsets and other hazards. A premium of $67.47 was paid for the insurance, the return of which was tendered in the answer which denied liability, upon the ground that the insured, Hendrix, was not the sole owner of the car as stated in the pol... | [
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Holt, J.
A jury convicted appellant, Hadaway, of aggravated assault (Ark. Stat. 1947, § 41-605) and assessed Ms punishment at twenty days Imprisonment in the County Jail and a fine of $100.' From the judgment is this appeal.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
The Commissioner of Revenues for the State", after a hearing had been accorded appellant, ordered that delinquent sales tax be collected from appellant with the statutory penalty of 10% and interest, all totaling $887.75. This order was affirmed on appeal to the Pulaski Chancery Court, from which dec... | [
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Robins, J.
The only question presented is whether the evidence adduced before the Workmen’s Compensation Commission was sufficient to justify the award of compensation made by the commission, affirmed by the circuit court on appeal, in favor of the widow and estate of Hfenry Chism, deceased.
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This cause was begun by appellant, Ed Pinkert, as an action in ejectment in Pulaski Circuit Court to establish title and right to possession to the west % of lots 1 to 6, inclusive, block 8, Adams Addition to the City of Little Eock. Appellant claimed title through mesne conveyances from Sewe... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
This is an appeal from a Chancery decree which (a) allowed appellant no relief and (b) sustained the cross-complaint of the appellee, D. C. Davis, for reformation of his deed to appellant.
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Holt, J.
January 22, 1946, appellant, H. S. Rag-land, sued appellee, R. S. Rhoads, and Ray Allen Rhoads, in the Northern District of Arkansas county, to recover $1,263.65 for work and labor performed under an alleged oral contract for drilling a well, and pulling, and installing a pump from an old well.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellee sued appellant, her husband, for a divorce and as grounds for that relief alleged that he had, by his course of conduct long pursued, rendered her condition as his wife intolerable. A decree was rendered upon the grounds alleged, from which is this appeal.
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George Rose Smith, J.
The jury found the appellant guilty of rape and imposed the death penalty. This appeal is from a judgment entered upon the verdict.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Two indictments for misdemeanors were returned against appellant for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors. In one, No. 363, the illegal sale was alleged to have been made to one J. E. Hudson, and in the other indictment No. 365, the sale was alleged to have been made to one Harry Golden. He was t... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
The State Commissioner of Revenues (hereinafter referred to as “State Commissioner”) filed a suit for discovery. From a decree refusing the prayed relief, there is this appeal.
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George Rose Smith, J.
The circuit court affirmed a Workmen’s Compensation Commission order awarding compensation to the appellee as the widow of Robert H. Scott. The Commission found that Scott’s exertions in carrying a heavy tool kit and welding torch to the second floor of his employer’s place of. business had caused... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, J.
T. A. Blankenship was a resident of Greene County, Arkansas, at the time of his death on June 10, 1948, at the age of 65. He left surviving him three children as his sole heirs at law. They are C. W. Blankenship, a son, and Floice Blankenship Toombs, a daughter, who are thé appellants here, and a s... | [
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Holt, J.
April 13, 1948, by proper court order, School District No. 53 of Independence County was con solidatecl with appellee, School District No. 81 of that comity.
June 10, 1907, C. H. Gunther and wife conveyed by warranty deed to School District No. 53 approximately one acre of land out of a 140 acre tract which th... | [
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Holt, J.
July 9, 1946, Juanita Yates sued Edward W. Yates for divorce and alimony. Constructive service was had on Edward W. Yates, he being a non-resident. November 30, 1946, on order of general attachment, an attachment was levied on certain real proper^ of Yates.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellant Ptak and appellee Jameson were opposing candidates for the nomination of the Democratic party for the office of Municipal Judge for the City of Fayetteville in the primary election held in that city February 24, 1948. The returns of the election as canvassed by the party committee, gave Jam... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellants and appellees own and reside on adjoining residential lots in the City of Fayetteville. Appellants’ lot lies immediately north of the lot of appellee and each of the lots is described in the respective deeds of the parties as being 50 feet wide and 194 feet long facing west on Hill... | [
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Robins, J.
Appellant asks us to reverse judgment against him, in favor of appellee, based on jury verdict for $10,000, for damage sustained by appellee as a result of crash of one of appellant’s airplanes in which appellee was riding on December 14, 1947.
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George Rose Smith, J.
This case involves the validity of occupation taxes levied hy Ordinance No. 7573 of the City of Little Rock. The appellees, a partnership owning radio station KGHI and a corporation owning station KARK, brought suit to enjoin the City Collector from enforcing the ordinance, upon the theory that th... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
John Powell sued Monticello Cotton Mills (hereinafter called Monticello) for damages and also for specific performance of a contract of employment. From the decree allowing damages, Monticello has appealed; and from the decree refusing specific performance, Powell has appealed.
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
The appeal results from a disagreement between adjoining landowners regarding the use of a well, but in determining relative rights the Chancellor established a true line. Effect was to quiet title in appellees to a strip thirteen feet wide on the west side of Lot 10, and to create in the ... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
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George Rose Smith, J.
James Sheppard owned Sheppard Island plantation, in Jefferson County, when he died in 1870. His will directed his two executors to sell the property and divide the proceeds equally among his widow and children. This direction was not followed; instead, in 1876 one of the executors conveyed the pro... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This appeal involves venue of a suit in the nature of a bill of interpleader filed by appellants, Roy A. Drum and William K. Ward, trustee, against appellees, Charles E. McDaniel, M. B. Morgan and Ava Morgan, in the Pulaski Chancery Court.
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
J. W. Pharr executed his last will September 2, 1926, and died April 1, 1928. A son, F. E. Pharr, was named executor, with power to close the estate “without being required to execute bond, and without [the necessity] of accounting to the Probate Court, or having any probate proceedings ot... | [
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Ed. E. McFaddin, Justice.
The questions presented on this appeal are whether appellees may recover for their improvements, and, if so, in what amounts.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
This is a continuation of the case of Smith v. Smith, reported in 213 Ark. 636, 212 S. W. 2d, 10, and reference is made to that case for certain relevant and essential facts, which will not he here repeated. The opinion in that case was delivered June 14, 1948. The question there involved was that of... | [
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KAREN R. BAKER, Associate Justice
11 This is an appeal from the Pulaski County Circuit Court’s December 16, 2013 order granting a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by appellant, Lillie McMullen, against appellee, McHughes Law Firm (“McHughes”). In her complaint, McMul-len alleged that McHughes violated the Arkansas F... | [
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KENNETH S. HIXSON, Judge
In this workers’ compensation case, appellant Joey Hopkins appeals the Commission’s findings that (1) denied his claim for additional medical treatment recommended by Dr. Christopher Arnold for an admittedly compensable September 16, 2010 right-knee injury, and (2) rejected his argument that th... | [
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RHONDA K. WOOD, Associate Justice
11 Michael Feuget appeals the denial of his petition for postconviction relief under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37. Feuget contends he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his trial because: (1) his attorneys failed to present certain witness testimony to corrobor... | [
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ROBIN F. WYNNE, Associate Justice
li Marlin Brown appeals his convictions for three counts of rape, three counts of aggravated robbery, and one count of Class B felony kidnapping. On appeal, he argues that “the abolition by statute of the statute of limitations defense for defendants whose DNA profile is included in a ... | [
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BRANDON J. HARRISON, Judge
BThe Benton County Circuit Court granted summary judgment to Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) PLC. It ruled that Great Lakes had no duty to defend or indemnify separate claims made against the insured (George) because no possibility of coverage existed under the insurance policy. The claims that ... | [
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BART F. VIRDEN, Judge
| Appellant Johnathan Albretsen was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault on a family or household member in the death of his stepfather, Joe Gonsalves. A Saline County jury convicted him of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Al-bretsen argues on appe... | [
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ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Chief Judge
|,Appellant Louis Butler appeals the February 21, 2014 order of the Pulaski County Circuit Court awarding appellee Lover Finley $85,286.39 in actual damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. He argues that there was insufficient evidence that he committed the tort of conversion. We affirm... | [
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ROBIN F. WYNNE, Associate Justice
LThe Board of Directors of the City of Hot Springs (the Board) appeals from two separate orders of the Garland County Circuit Court. In the first order, the circuit court found that the Board had violated the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. In the second order, the circuit court a... | [
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ELANA CUNNINGHAM WILLS, Justice.
I,Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) appeals from a permanency-planning order entered by the Grant County Circuit Court. We accepted certification of this case from the court of appeals because DHS seeks an extraordinary writ as an alternative to reversal. See Ark. Sup.Ct. R. l... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
The Publicity Act (Initiative Act No. 2 of 1914) is involved on this appeal, as also are questions of res judicata and Mandamus.
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Robins, J.
Appellant was indicted by the grand jury for the offense of keeping a gambling house (in violation of §§ 41-2001-4, Ark. Stats. (1947). It was alleged in the indictment that appellant “on the 1st day of March, 1948, did unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and feloniously keep, conduct, operate and have an intere... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
On June 6, 1943, Bichar u u. Stagg made application to the appellant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, for a life insurance policy in the initial amount of $2,046, to H. B. Ament, the agent of the insurance company. Ament had lived at DeWitt, which was insured’s home, for about 8 years and was a ... | [
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Robins, J.
Appellants own land situated in appellee, -Little Bock-Pulaski Drainage District No. 2 of Pulasld County, organized for the purpose of protecting, by levee and drainage works, lowlands in the eastern part of the City of Little Bock and suburban territory adjacent. This district was created under authority of... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
By direct appeal C. Floyd Huff challenges as insufficient an allowance of $5,000 as attorney’s fee, while executors and others insist in their cross-appeal that $3,500 is enough.
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This is an application to this court for a writ of prohibition to prevent the judge of the Perry Probate Court from proceeding fur-there in a cause wherein petitioner, Sam H. Wilson, was adjudged to be incompetent and incapable of handling his business affairs and a guardian of his person and... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
The verdict was: “We, the jury, find . . . John Bailey guilty of rape . . . and assess his punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary.”
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Claim for compensation was filed by appellee Jan. 21, 1948, claiming that he was employed by Brook’s Inc., a domestic corporation, which regularly employed five or more employees, and that he was injured in the course of his employment on November 20, 1947.
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
On a plea of guilty, the jury convicted the appellant of murder in the first degree, and assessed the death punishment; and this appeal is an effort to obtain a reduction in the sentence.
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
The Workmen’s Compensation Commission found that appellant, Glenn A. Green, sustained an accidental injury to his eyes which arose out of and in the course of his employment by appellee, Lion Oil Company, in June, 1947. The commission denied appellant’s claim for weekly compensation benefits ... | [
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Leflar, J.
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
Appellant was convicted of a violation of the Full Switching Crew Law of Arkansas, in that the appellant’s switching crew in the City of Osceola consisted of an engineer, fireman, conductor and only two brakemen, whereas the State contends that three brakemen are required by the said law, the ... | [
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellant filed this suit to enforce the specific performance of an alleged contract to purchase a tract of land. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained, from which decree is this appeal.
The case is a continuation of the litigation reported in the case of Cortiana v. Franco, 212 Ark. 930, 208 S. ... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellant was found guilty of assault with intent to commit rape. The jury’s verdict finding bim guilty did not fix Ms punishment, but left that duty to the trial judge. Section 4070, Pope’s Digest, permits this practice and under its authority appellant was given a sentence of four years in the peni... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellant, Robert W. O ’Meara, was drilling for oil at a location in Little River county about eight miles north of Texarkana, Arkansas, in August, 1946. Hershel L. Williams, Clyde Redi, Noel A. Beasley, and F. Gr. Tisdale, members of the drilling crew, had started to work in Williams’ automo... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellant is a farmers mutual fire insurance company organized under Ark. Stats. (1947), § 66-1501. On March 19, 1947, the company issued its policjr to appellee, Mrs. L. E. - Kelley, insuring her rural home and household furnishings against loss by fire and windstorm in the total sum of $1,5... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
On March 24,1930, the Missouri State Life Insurance Company obtained a foreclosure decree that resulted in a deficiency judgment against the appellees. The judgment was assigned to the appellant in 1933. The question now is whether it has been kept in force by revivorship proceedings.
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
This is a suit by plaintiff, Lydia Green, against her son-in-law and daughter, Chester A. Whitney and Ruth Whitney, to set aside a deed and vest title in plaintiff to certain property located at 804 Izard Street in the City of Little Rock. The trial court declined to grant the relief sought, ... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
Petitioner is the mother of a four-month-old boy whose custody is involved in this proceeding. On March 18, when the baby was less than a month old, petitioner signed and verified a pleading by which she entered her appearance in the probate court and agreed to the appointment of a guardian for th... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
Cypress Lake, as meandered by Government surveyors in 1841, was a long narrow body of water that crossed the Northwest Quarter of Section 29, Township 16 South, Bange 25 West, in a northwesterly direction, isolating a triangle of 8.78 acres in the northeast corner of the quarter. This case involve... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
Appellant, a soldier stationed at Camp Chaffee, brought this uncontested action for divorce about two months after his arrival in Arkansas. He admits that his presence in this State is in obedience to army orders and that he may be transferred to a new station at any time. Appellant formerly lived... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
By information the appellant was charged with maliciously, willfully and wantonly killing five hogs and wounding three more, all owned by W. D. Elms. The jury imposed a fine and assessed the amount of damages, the court entering judgment in favor of Elms for treble damages as authorized by statute... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
In 1945, for a consideration of $1,000, the appellee conveyed to the appellants, Kyle and Fehr, all the “merchantable” cypress timber on eighty acres of land, together with such smaller timber as might be needed for skid poles. Appellants were given two years in which to remove the timber. The* ch... | [
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George Rose Smith, J.
This is a taxpayer’s action to enjoin the appellee paving district from proceeding with the work for which it was organized. Appellant pleaded a number of defects in the organization of the district, but only one need be discussed.
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
In this action on account for $113.42 the parties have injected questions of venue, partnership, sales, payment, evidence and trial practice. Fortunately for those who favor short opinions, we are able to bypass some of the questions presented.
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Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
Lois Cooper was found dead near Gravette the evening of December 23, 1948. Proximity of an old truck near the city garbage dump where the body was found, the peculiar nature of injuries sustained, contradictory statements by Mrs. Cooper’s husband, and unexplained conduct, led to Cooper’s a... | [
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Holt, J.
The parties to this litigation, which involves the title to a 160 acre farm in Lonoke county and six lots in England, Arkansas, are all Negroes.
.. Appellants are the only heirs of Scipio A. Jones and Lillie M. Jones, his wife. Jones was a practicing attor ney in Little Rock until shortly before his death in 1... | [
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Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.
Appellant was convicted of grand larceny for the theft of a promissory note in the face amount of $400, and prosecutes this appeal.
From the evidence the jury could well have found the facts to be as recited in this paragraph: Woodrow Gaza-way was the stepson of Enoch D. Phillips. Appellant at... | [
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Minor W. Millwee, Justice.
Appellee, Bonnie Mae Obennoskey, instituted this suit against the appellant, Hoail Allen Obennoskey, for a divorce on the grounds of personal indignities and cruelty. Appellee also asked for custody of their six months old child and a second unborn child she was expecting, and for support and... | [
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Frank G. Smith, J.
Appellant was put to trial upon an information charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed in the perpetration of the crime of rape upon the person of Betty Jane McCall. He was found guilty of the offense charged and was given a death sentence, from which... | [
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