Rowland v. McBride

This is a taxpayer’s suit, wherein the plaintiff, Rowland, seeks to prevent the defendants state highway commission and state engineer from improving a highway (and the auditor and treasurer from paying vouchers therefor), extending from Casa Grande, in Pinal county, to Gila Bend, in Maricopa county, on a route surveyed and located by defendants, and to compel such defendants to construct such highway on a route which it is contended was located by the legislative act authorizing such improvement. Both preventive and mandatory relief is sought.

At the regular session of the eighth legislature,…