State Highway Commission v. Coahoma County

Up to the time of the advent of the automobile as a practical means of conveyance all the roads in the state, outside of municipal streets, were of a primitive type, none of them being paved, except for some few yards here and there in swampy places where planked corduroys had been laid or sometimes but in rare instances a few yards of concrete were used. Along the coast there was a considerable mileage of shell roads but these were soon found to be wholly inadequate as against automobile travel.

The automobile had come into large use in the state by 1910, and there arose a demand in many…