Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1889

Town of Arkadelphia v. Clark

Supreme Court of Arkansas · Decided May 15, 1889

52 Ark. 23

Cases that cite this one

19 later published cases cite this decision.

Phillips v. Town of Oak Grove (Ark. 1998)
Allman v. Rexer (Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas 1934)
Merrill v. City of Van Buren (Ark. 1916)
Rogers Group, Inc. v. City of Fayetteville, Ark. (8th Cir. 2010)
People v. McGregor (Mich. Ct. App. 1975)
Green Star Supermarket, Inc. v. Stacy (Ark. 1967)
Hackler v. City of Fort Smith (Ark. 1964)
Ferreira v. D'ASARO (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)
City of Piggott v. Eblen (Ark. 1963)
People v. McOmber (New York Supreme Court 1954)
City of Springdale v. Chandler (Ark. 1953)
Goldman & Co. v. City of North Little Rock (Ark. 1952)
Holden v. Lewis (Delaware County Court of Common Pleas 1946)
In re Ellis (Cal. 1938)
Tshudy v. McCutcheon (Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas 1935)
Town of Dardanelle v. Gillespie (Ark. 1915)
Swaim v. Morris (Ark. 1910)
Lonoke v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (Ark. 1909)
Ex parte Foote (Ark. 1901)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Nuisance: Keeping Neither the keeping, owning, or raising of bees is, in itself, a nuisance. Bees may become a nuisance in a cit3q but whether they are so or not is a question to be judicially determined in each case. The ordinance under consideration undertakes to mike each of the acts named a nuisance without regard to the fact whether it is so or not, or whether bees in general have become a nuisance in the city. It is, therefore, too broad, and is invalid.

Affirmed.

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.