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J., did not participate." ], "parties": [ "Brizzolara v. Fort Smith." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Battle, J.\nOn the i6fh day of October, 1906, the city council of Eort Smith, Arkansas, passed an ordinance No. 737, section one of which is as follows:\n\u201cSection i. That section 1978 of Read & McDonough\u2019s Digest of the Ordinances of Eort Smith, Arkansas, be amended to read as follows:\n\u201cOwners or occupants compelled to build \u2014 -The owners, occupants or agents of all lots or part thereof, blocks or parts thereof, in the city of Eort Smith, Arkansas, and all other real property in said city abutting on any street or streets or parks dr squares in said city, shall be required and hereby compelled to build and construct permanent sidewalks and curbings and guttering, or repair the same, on all said lots and blocks or part thereof in said city and on all real property in said city not subdivided into lots and blocks according to the specifications and out of the material hereinafter prescribed.\u201d\nSection 9 of the ordinance is in part as follows: \u201cWhen required, said owner, occupant or agent is required to construct, rebuild or repair any foot pavement or sidewalk improvement or curbing or guttering within thirty days from and after the service of notice of the passage by the city council of any resolution requiring any such foot pavement or sidewalk improvement or curbing or guttering to be constructed, rebuilt or repaired. The notice herein required shall be given and served as followsetc.\nSection 10 of the same ordinance is as follows:\n\u2018The said city after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the giving of the notice as aforesaid in section 2016 shall have the right to do and perform said improvement or repair, and said city shall have a lien for the costs thereof upon said property, and shall have the right to enforce the same as provided in section 5542 of Kirby\u2019s Digest of the Statutes of the State of Arkansas.\u201d\nSection 11 is as follows: \u201cAny owner, occupant or agent who fails to build, construct or repair his sidewalk improvement or curbing and guttering after thirty (30) days\u2019 notice as provided in section 2016 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined for e\u00e1ch offense the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) and each day\u2019s delay shall be a separate offense.\u201d\nOn the 25th day of October, 1907, the same city council passed a resolution, in part, as follows:\n\u201cBe it resolved by the city council of the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas: That the owners, -occupants and agents of owners of real property in said city adjoining the streets and portions of streets hereinafter named be and they are hereby required within thirty (30) days from and after the service upon them, respectively, of a copy of this resolution, to construct curbing and guttering along the street frontage of the lots and parts of lots and other real property owned or occupied by them respectively, adjoining said streets and portions of streets, in conformity with ordinances No. 705 and 737 of said city.\u201d\nOn the 17th day of December, 1907, James Brizzolara and others brought suit in the Sebastian Chancery Court for the Fort Smith District, and alleged in their complaint in part, as follows:\n\u201cNow comes said plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all others interested, and who may desire to become parties herein, and for cause of action against said defendants, said mayor and aldermen representing said defendant city in their official capacity, allege:\n\u201cThat said plaintiffs are citizens of the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and owners of real property therein; that they own property abutting on the streets and highways of said city, and are taxpayers on said real property; that said defendants are endeavoring to enforce illegal exactions and liens against these plaintiffs and against their said property, and against the inhabitants of said city, by threatening, demanding and compelling said plaintiffs to lay, build and construct in front of their said property on the streets of said city, beyond the curb line on said streets, a concrete gutter thirty inches in width as provided and required- by ordinance numbered 737 of the ordinances of the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a true, full and complete copy of which said ordinance, including its title and caption, is hereto attached, marked \u201cExhibit A\u201d and made part of this complaint; that, in aid of the enforcement of said ordinance, the city council of said city on the 25th day of October, 1907, passed and adopted a resolution, a true, full and complete copy of which resolution is hereto attached, marked \u201cExhibit B\u201d and made part of this complaint.\n\u201cThat said ordinance and resolution, or - so much thereof as requires the property owner or the occupant of property thereby affected to lay, build and construct a concrete gutter in the street beyond the curb line in front of said property, and permitting and impowering the city, on failure of the property owner so to do, to lay, build and construct said gutter, making the expense and costs thereof a lien on said property abutting on said streets, is illegal and void.\n\u201cThat said ordinance is unreasonable.\n\u201cThat said city purported to pass said ordinance and resolution, not being invested with power so to do, and without any authority of law.\n\u201cThat by the terms of said ordinance the owners of real estate are required and compelled to construct on the streets in front of their property a curb and. gutter, and the specifications for the construction of the same are set forth in the aforesaid ordinance for guttering and curbing. It is further provided by said ordinance that the city should have the right to make said improvement, rebuild or repair the same, and should have a lien on the property of these plaintiffs for the costs thereof, the said lien being assignable and enforceable as liens upon real estate for the condemnation and sale of said real estate, for the payment of costs so paid by the city, together with interest, penalty and costs, in the manner and under the terms provided by law for the foreclosure of liens upon real property by local improvement districts, so far as applicable. It is further provided \u25a0 by the aforesaid ordinance that a failure to comply with the terms thereof is also made a misdemeanor, and subjects each of these complainants to a fine for each offense in the sum of $15.00, and each day\u2019s delay, after expiration of notice provided for, constitutes a separate offense. * * *\n\u201cThat the said defendant, the city of Fort Smith, through its officers, agents and employees, has threatened and is about to attempt to proceed, and is proceeding, to construct and put in the aforesaid curbing and guttering, and thereby acquire a lien for the costs thereof and penalty and to have such purported lien enforced, together with interest, penalty and costs, against the property of each of these plaintiffs and to sell said property under such purported claim or lien. That by so doing apparently upon the face of the proceeding of said foreclosure and sale the same will apparently vest the legal title to said property in the purchaser, and will thereby cast a cloud upon the title to the real property owned respectively by these plaintiffs and of which these plaintiffs are severally seized; and that by such acts and proceedings the said defendants, \u25a0 without right, power or authority of law to so proceed, and, as they are in fact now proceeding to enforce the aforesaid void and illegal ordinance, are about to deprive these plaintiffs and each of these plaintiffs of their liberty and property without due process of law; and that the said defendants are about to proceed, and are in fact now proceeding, to enforce the aforesaid void and illegal ordinance.\n' \u201cThat if the defendants proceed, and they are now in fact proceeding, to 'enforce the aforesaid ordinance, such course and conduct will involve plaintiffs in a multiplicity of suits and actions, both civil and criminal.\n\u201cThat when the city of Fort Smith shall have made or constructed, or caused to be made or constructed, the curbing and guttering aforesaid, the cost thereof will constitute a lien on the real property of each of these plaintiffs, and will cast a cloud upon their title to the same; and that, if said defendants are not restrained from so doing, plaintiffs will be involved in a multiplicity of suits.\n\u201cWherefore defendants\u2019 said threatened acts aforesaid will lead to a multiplicity of suits, and cause irreparable injury to plaintiffs and to their property, by subjecting them to fines and penalties, by casting a cloud upon the title to their property, and by totally depriving them of said property.\u201d And they asked that \u201cthe defendants, and each of them, their agents, servants, and employees, be restrained and enjoined from in any way or manner enforcing or attempting to enforce or carry out any of the terms or provisions of the aforesaid void and illegal ordinance; and, on final hearing hereof, the said defendants, and each of them, their agents, servants and employees, and their successors in office, be forever enjoined from enforcing or attempting to enforce any of the terms or provisions of said illegal and void ordinance; and for other and further relief.\u201d\nThe defendants demurred to the complaint, and the court sustained the demurrer. The plaintiff refusing to plead further, the court dismissed the complaint; and plaintiff appealed.\nA court of equity has jurisdiction to enjoin an illegal sale of land to prevent a cloud being thrown upon its title. But no cloud is or can be thrown upon the title if the proceeding, judgment, decree or instrument of writing upon which a claim is asserted is void upon its face. Neither can a proceeding threatened be a cloud if it will necessarily show on its face that it will be void. In neither of-these cases will equity interfere to prevent a cloud, as none will arise. Beardsley v. Hill, 85 Ark. 4. According to this rule, it does not appear that there would necessarily be any cloud upon the title of plaintiffs if defendants should be left unrestrained in the enforcement of the ordinance.\nA court of equity will, however, in a single suit, \u201ctake cognizance of a controversy, determine the rights of all parties, and grant the relief requisite to meet the ends of justice, in order to prevent a multiplicity of suits, where a number of persons have separate and individual claims and rights of action against the same party, but all arise from the same common cause, are governed by the same legal rule, and involve \u25a0 similar facts, and the whole matter may be settled in one action;\u201d there being a community of interest between them in the question at issue and in the remedy. (1 Pomeroy\u2019s Equity Jurisprudence, (3rd. Ed. \u00a7 \u00a7 255, 269.) The cause of appellants come within this rule.\nIncorporated towns and cities have no power to compel property owners to construct gutters. The laws of this State give them none;- and they have no - power except that given them. Morrilton Waterworks Improvement Dist. v. Earl, 71 Ark. 4; Tuck v. Waldron, 31 Ark. 462, 465.\nAppellants say: \u201cSaid ordinance is further invalid because it is unreasonable in failing to provide for proper filling, ditchings, excavating and grading before requiring said curbings and guttering to be placed.\u201d But this does not affect the ordinance. In such failure it does not require property owners to do such work. Little Rock v. Fitzgerald, 59 Ark. 494.\nAgain appellants say: \u201cThis ordinance is further unconstitutional as it makes it a misdemeanor for any owner, occupant or agent, who fails to build, construct, or repair his curbing and guttering after thirty days\u2019 notice, * * * * and punishes by fine for each offense in the sum of $15.00, and each day\u2019s delay is made a separate offense. The act of April 8, 1903, does not authorize this.\u201d But sections 5462 and 5466 of Kirby\u2019s Digest do.\nSo much of the ordinance in question as requires property owners to construct guttering and repair the same is invalid. But, as it is \u201cseparable from, and not necessary to the efficiency of, the other provisions of the ordinance,\u201d it will be treated as stricken out, and for the present and until it otherwise appears, the remainder of the ordinance will be treated as valid. Rau v. Little Rock, 34 Ark. 303; Eureka Springs v. O\u2019Neal, 56 Ark. 350.\nIn this opinion we have treated the curbing as a part of the sidewalk. It is made for the protection and good appearance of the sidewalk, and is more appropriately a part of it than any other part of the street.\nJudgment reversed and cause remanded with directions to the court to overrule the demurrer and for further proceedings.\nHill, C. J., did not participate.", "type": "majority", "author": "Battle, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "James Brizzolara and T. S. Osborne, for appellant.", "7. F. O\u2019Melia and F. A. Youmans, for appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Brizzolara v. Fort Smith.\nOpinion delivered July 6, 1908.\n1. Equity \u2014 removal of cloud \u2014 jurisdiction.\u2014Equity will not interfere to remove an alleged cloud upon title to land if the proceeding, judgment, decree or instrument of writing which is alleged to constitute the cloud necessarily shows upon its face that it is void (Page 91.)\n2. Same \u2014 multiplicity of suits. \u2014 Equity, in a single suit, will take cognizance of a controversy, determine the rights of all parties and grant the relief requisite to meet the ends of justice, in' order to prevent a multiplicity of suits, where a number of persons have separate and individual claims and rights of action against the same party, if there is a community of interest in the question at issue and in the remedy. (Page 91.)\n3. Municipal corporations \u2014 power to require construction of gutters. \u2022 \u2014 Cities and incorporated towns have no power to compel property owners to construct or repair gutters. (Page 92.)\n4. Same \u2014 power To require curbing. \u2014 Cities and towns are authorized to require property owners to construct and repair the curbing as part of the sidewalk. (Page 92.)\n5- Same \u2014 when ordinance partially valid. \u2014 Where part of an ordinance is separable from and not necessary to the efficiency of its other provisions, it will be treated as stricken out, and the remainder of the ordinance will be treated as valid. (Page 92.)\nAppeal from Sebastian Chancery Court, Fort Smith District; /. Virgil Bourland, Chancellor;\nreversed.\nJames Brizzolara and T. S. Osborne, for appellant.\n1. Appellants have the right to bring this suit. Art. 16, \u00a7 13, Constitution. Chancery has the power to inquire into municipal exactions and to enjoin their collection, and to inquire into and enjoin the enforcements of any kind of illegal burden imposed upon the citizen or his property. 34 Ark. 603; 39 Ark. 412; 33 Ark. 4411 46 Ark. 471; Kirby\u2019s Dig. \u00a7 5485; 53 Ark. 205; 52 Ark. 541; 2 Dillon, Mun. Corp., \u00a7 \u00a7 914, 915, 916; Tiedeman, Mun. Corp. \u00a7 395. Equity will take jurisdiction to avoid a multiplicity of suits. Fletcher\u2019s Eq. PI. & Pr., \u00a7 \u00a7 25, 26, 109; Pomeroy\u2019s Eq. Jur., \u00a7 \u00a7 243, 245, 255, 269; 4 Ark. 302; 33 Ark. 633. See, also, Tiedeman, Mun. Corp., \u00a7 397, note 6; 30 Ark. 609; 19 Ark. 139; 22 Ark. 103; 24 Ark. 431; 169 U. S. 466; 101 U. S. 601. A taxpayer has an interest in any action of the municipality that tends to increase the burden of taxation; and if the proposed action be illegal, he can sue for an injunction to restrain it. 3 Am. & Eng. Dec. in Eq., 574; I Id. 66; 1 High on Inj., \u00a7 \u00a7 12, 6i-63a; 1 Pomeroy on Eq. Jur., \u00a7 255; 175 111. 445; 43 Fed. 824. \u25a0\n2. Neither the act of April 8, 1903, nor of March 21, 1885, Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a7 \u00a7 5542 and 5648, confers upon a city the power to impose fines for failure or refusal to construct curbing\u2019or guttering. The city is without power to compel curbing and guttering. The ordinance being clearly ultra vires and illegal and highly penal in its nature, affecting all the property owners of the city, injunction will lie. 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 428; 8 Lea, 127; 93 Tenn. 81; 26 L. R. A., 541; 101 Tenn. 182.\n3. The ordinance, in so far as relates to curbing and guttering, is unconstitutional, because it is either an attempt to levy a tax in a manner not authorized by the Constitution, or an attempt to levy an assessment for local improvement, not based upon the consent of the majority in value of the property owners, and such tax or assessment 'is not ad valorem. Art. 12, \u00a7 4, Const. 1874; art. 19, \u00a7 27, Id.; art. 15, \u00a7 5, Const.; 32 Ark. 31; 48 Ark. 251; 31 Ark. 462; 45 Ark. 336; 71 Ark. 4; 43 la. 524; 67 Ala. 588; Cooley, Const. Dim. (2d Ed.), 191; 46 Mich. 565; 23 How. (U. S.), 435; 1 Dillon, Mun. Corp., (4th Ed.), \u00a7 89; 1 Abbott, Mun. Corp., 184 et seq.; McQuillin, Mun. Ordinances, \u00a7 48; Tiedeman, Mun. C\u00f3rp., \u00a7 no.\n4. Having no inherent power to levy taxes or make assessments, a municipal corporation can levy only such taxes and make only such assessments as are authorized by law. 30 Ark. 435; 1 Abbott on Mun. Corp., 678-9, 786; Tiedeman on Mun. (Corp., \u00a7 256; 54 Ark. 500; 80 Pa. St.,' 505; 2 Mod. Law Mun. Corp., \u00a7 1229. The power to tax or assess cannot be implied from the general welfare clause. Municipal corporations have no right under the police power to tax or make assessments. Abbott on Mun. Corp., 671, note 2; 22 Am. & Eng. Enc. of L., (2d Ed.), 917; Tiedeman on Mun. Corp., \u00a7 253; 1 Mod. Law Mun. Corp., \u00a7 612.\n5. Sidewalks are intended only for pedestrians, but curbing and guttering are essential parts of the roadway. 138 Mass. 555; 59 Ark- 459; Elliott on Roads and Streets (2d Ed.), \u00a7 20; II Kans. 384; McQuillin, Mun. Ord., \u00a7 562; 49 Ark. 204; Webster\u2019s Diet. \u201cGutter;\u201d 138 Cal. 364; 42 N. J. L. 510; Hamilton, Law of Special Assessments, \u00a7 251.\n6. The ordinance is invalid because unreasonable in failing to provide for proper filling, ditching, etc.\n7. F. O\u2019Melia and F. A. Youmans, for appellees.\nThe power to compel property owners to put in curbing may be granted by the Legislature as an exercise of the police power. The act of March 21, 1885, Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a7 4648, was held to be a valid exercise of the police power. 49 Ark. 199. The curb was sufficiently designated by the term \u201csidewalk .improvement.\u201d The act of April 8, 1903, Kirby\u2019s Dig. \u00a7 5542, confers \u201cenlarged and additional powers, and in this act the gutter comes within the term \u201ccurbing improvement,\u201d just as the curb comes within the term \u201csidewalk improvement\u201d used in the former act. 64 Ark. 555; 1 Green\u2019s Law Rep. (N. J.) 196; 22 Am. & Eng. Enc. of L., 922.\n2. The mere failure of the ordinance to provide that the city should do the grading is not sufficient to render it void.\n3. While it is true that section 5542, Kirby\u2019s Digest, referred to by appellants, does not authorize the imposition of a fine, it is authorized by section 5648; but, if there were no power to impose a fine, that would not make the whole ordinance void." }, "file_name": "0085-01", "first_page_order": 107, "last_page_order": 115 }