Marion County v. McCorkle

Duckworth, Justice.

On April 1, 1938, Marion County, through its board of commissioners of roads and revenue, brought suit against J. R. Mc-Corkle, alleging that the alternative roa'd law had been in effect in said county for a number of years, and the roads of said county had been worked by convict labor up to March 1, 1938; that the defendant had been employed by said county as superintendent of roads and a's warden, and as such had been allowed to occupy a dwelling-house on the county farm; that at a meeting duly held on February 18, 1938, a motion was passed, abolishing the convict system…