Heathman v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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1. “It is further held that the commissioners' courts of the state never exercise any jurisdiction over the highways except by virtue of the laws of the state, as enacted by the Legislature, and that since article 5, sec. 18, of the Constitution, conferring on the county commissioners jurisdiction over all county business, does not, in terms, confer on that body power over county roads, the Legislature has the authority to take away the jurisdiction once conferred upon commissioners' courts over public highways of the state and transfer it to another agency. This the law has done as to state highways.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Wilbarger County

2. “Had the plaintiffs in error pleaded and proved that the order, providing for the bond election, specified that the moneys should be expended on a highway between Riverside and Huntsville by way of Cline's Prairie, and that these moneys were about to be so used on another route as would deprive them of a similar highway by way of Cline's Prairie, they would have been entitled to the relief for which they prayed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fletcher v. Howard