State Ex Rel. Cowan v. State Highway Commission

These cases involve the same subject matter and they will be considered and decided together. In both cases, Hancock County seeks, by mandamus, to compel the Mississippi State Highway Commission to appraise, and reimburse that county its' proportionate value of, a bridge constructed by Hancock and Harrison Counties across the Bay of St. Louis, under authority of Chapter 512, Local Laws of Mississippi 1924, which bridge connects the two counties and had been taken over by the Highway Commission, and had become a part of United States Highway 90; which highway begins at the Louisiana line and…