Legal Opinion
Turner v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 9, 1933No. 5 Div. 133PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Justice.
Defendant resists this civil action by the state to recover of him a chauffeur’s license upon two grounds. The first concerns the work in which he is engaged, driving a public school bus in Elmore county. Defendant owns and operates the bus under a contract with the county board of education, and it is argued that as such board is an independent agency of .the state (Turk v. County Board of Education, 222 Ala. 177, 131 So. 436), the defendant is performing a governmental function, and therefore not subject to pay a license therefor. Much reliance is had by counsel upon…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Johnson v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Harrington v. State Ex Rel. Van HayesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- State v. PrestonOregon Supreme Court · 1922
- Greil Bros. v. City of MontgomerySupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
- Turk v. County Board of EducationSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Mayor and Council of Wilmington v. DukesSupreme Court of Delaware · 1960
- First Nat. Bank of Scottsboro v. Jackson CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- McDowell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
- County Board of Education v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1940
- Jefferson County v. O'GaraAlabama Court of Appeals · 1939
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