State v. Columbia, Godwin & Santa Fe Turnpike Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MAURY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maury County — . W, B, TubueR, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This is an appeal hy the State of Tennessee from a judgment of the circuit court, sustaining a demurrer to an indictment of the turnpike company. The indictment charged that the company had unlawfully failed, after metaling its turnpike as required by Code (Shannon) section 1764, to spread immediately upon said me-taling a coat of dirt, sand, gravel, or ground rock, and that the company had continued to take toll notwithstanding.
The demurrer attacked the constitutionality of the act which required such a coating he so placed on the roadway, same being Act 1905, chapter 534, amended by Act…
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