Black v. Wilson

delivered’the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought'by seven of eight ro'adcommis-sidhers' of Hardeman County, elected in August, 1944, for. two yepf s, .challenging the constitutionality of Chapter ■ 539,,-private Acts of 1945', under which the defend"ants claim to have succeeded to these offices. On the h|ea,ringi th.e,-.c,pse was submitted on a1 single issue, whether, tl^e Act. of J945 was effective to abolish the offices held ■by: complainants below, as an incident of substantial and fundamental changes in the county road law, or was Merely a colorable enactment having for its…