State ex rel. Smith v. Highway Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which thé state’s department of justice and its highway commission invoke the aid of this court to unravel certain financial snarls which have arisen out of the transfer to the state highway commission of certain responsibilities which heretofore rested on county boards and local officials relating to the construction of the state highway system.

On April 1,1929, chapter 225 of the session laws of that year took effect. By its terms it became the duty of the several boards of county commissioners…