Knott v. Stewart County

The purpose of the bill filed in this cause was to have declared invalid Chapter 85 of the Private Acts of 1945, which Act is applicable to Stewart County.

The ground of the attack is that the Act empowered the county judge or chairman of the county court of Stewart County to appoint a general road supervisor at the regular term of the quarterly county court on Monday, July 1, 1946, and each year thereafter at the July term of said court. By the provisions of the Act the county judge or chairman was to appoint said general road supervisor and the quarterly court was to confirm the appointment.…