Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department v. Adams

David Newbern,

Justice. This is an illegal exaction suit brought by the appellee, Miles S. Adams, a taxpayer, against the appellants, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department and the Arkansas State Highway Commission and its members, individually. The appellants will be referred to collectively as AHTD.

Adams claimed AHTD had arbitrarily and capriciously refused to accept the lowest bid on a highway construction project. AHTD contended its actions were not arbitrary and capricious because the bid in question, which was submitted by The Rust Company, Inc., (Rust) was incomplete and not…