State Ex Rel. Atty. Gen. v. Board of Supervisors

By Chapter 218, Laws 1926, the legislature designated as a state highway a road partly in Grenada County, described as follows: “ A road from a point near Greenwood to a point on federal aid road near Holcomb. ” This road was afterwards designated as State Highway No. 7. The bridge across Cane Creek on this highway in Grenada County collapsed in 1943, and the Attorney General brought this action in mandamus to compel the hoard of supervisors “to repair with reasonable diligence the bridge across Cane Creek.”

At the January, 1929 term of the board of supervisors an order was entered, under…