State Highway Commission v. McGowen Ex Rel. Hinds County

The district attorney, pursuant to an order of the board of supervisors of Hinds County, for the use of said county, filed a petition for mandamus against the State Highway Commission in the circuit court thereof, which was tried by the judge without the intervention of a jury, which was waived. Judgment was for the county, as far as the appraisement was concerned, and the Highway Commission appealed.

There was much pleading, but the case primarily dealt with the construction of Section 5004, Code 1930, Section 8036, Code 1942, and the meaning of "final location" of a highway in said statute.…