Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. Edgmon

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

The executive secretary of the State Game and Fish, Commission declined to authorize payment of $105 to four persons who claimed to have killed seven wolves over six months old, as evidenced by certificate of the Boone County Court. See Act 183 of 1949. The statute is entitled “An Act to authorize . . . counties ... to pay bounties for the killing of wolves and to provide that the State . . . shall pay an equal sum as a bounty, and for other purposes.” The emergency clause is a finding that farmers are suffering irreparable damage ‘£ from wolves destroying cattle…