Wright v. Pickens County’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"`In the location, erection, repair, or removal, or in the furnishing of the county's buildings, bridges, and roads, the court of county commissioners or board of revenue have a discretion that cannot be exercised for them by any other county official, or directed by any court, except only when their acts are such as amount to fraud, corruption, or unfair dealing. In the performance of these statutory duties, boards of revenue and courts of county commissioners exercise a function that is quasi legislative. * * In Town of Eutaw v. Coleman , [ 189 Ala. 164 , 66 So. 464 ], this court said: "We are not dealing with any question of the advisability of what the commissioners have done. There is no charge of fraud, corruption, or unfair dealing, and, in the absence of some such charge, this court is committed to the doctrine that in no case involving the exercise of discretionary power by the court of county commissioners will their action be controlled by any judicial tribunal."'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 466 So. 2d 945 - Barber v. COVINGTON COUNTY COM'N

2. “"The powers of courts of county commissioners with regard to public roads are prescribed in § 43, Tit. 23, Code 1940 [the predecessor of § 23-1-80 ]. . . . "It has been held that the exercise of the discretionary power given to the boards mentioned in § 43 cannot `be restrained or reviewed, unless it has been in a fraudulent, corrupt, or unfair conduct of the business of the county.' Ensley Motor Car Co. v. O'Rear , 196 Ala. 481 , [485], 71 So. 704, 705 ; Bentley v. County Commission for Russell County , 264 Ala. 106 , 109 , 84 So.2d 490 , 493 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 466 So. 2d 945 - Barber v. COVINGTON COUNTY COM'N

3. “When the question of the need for a public road is involved, the law commits this to the county authorities. The matter of the creation or discontinuance of a public road is legislative. The legislative body may and should consider all factors, the public need and convenience, the expense of the road system, the hazards and expense of frequent grade crossings over railroads, etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 466 So. 2d 945 - Barber v. COVINGTON COUNTY COM'N