Castilo v. State Highway Commission’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

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1. ““The State Highway System was not made up of public roads existing at the time of the passage of the act, Note the language of Section 29. ‘There is hereby created and established.a state-wide connected system of hard-surfaced public roads, . . . which shall' be located, acquired, constructed, reconstructed and improved . . . along the following described routes. ’ In the description of the routes by counties which immediately follows there is not a single reference to an existing public road or survey. Nor does the next section (Section 30) refer to surveys previously made as descriptive of the routes; it merely provides that such surveys shall be utilized whenever practicable. The only means given for ascertaining the routes intended are named points and general directions, and the general directions are merely incidental, performing no other function than that of identifying the points designated.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Palmer v. State Highway Commission