Watt v. State

I respectfully dissent from the action of the majority in affirming the judgment of the trial court.

The plaintiff’s petition in the court below sought to restrain the members of the highway commission, R. L. Bobbitt, Attorney General, Gib Gilchrist, state highway engineer, and Callahan, Coffey, and Carpenter, alleged to be a special commission appointed by the county judge of Gray county, from opening a road through his premises and condemning his land for state highway purposes. In his petition he alleges that the defendants are abusing their discretion in certain particulars, and attacks…