Bauer v. North Arkansas Highway Improvement District No. 1

Hart, J.,

(after' stating the facts). The main reliance of the defendants for a reversal of the judgment is that they were released from liability on the bond by reason of a special act of the Legislature. The Legislature of 1917 passed an act creating North Arkansas Highway Improvement District No. 1. Acts of Arkansas, 1917, vol. 2, p. 1149.

Section ■ 22 of the act provides that the commissioners shall' select such, solvent. hanks as depositories for the funds .of the district as they may deem for the best interest thereof. The. section further provides that said depositories shall be required…