Farmer v. Wiseman

The bill attacked the constitutionality of Chapter 220, Private Acts of 1941, repealing the Sequatchie County road law enacted in 1939, and providing a new road law for that County. The Chancellor (Circuit Judge Alan S. Kelly sitting by interchange) held the Act unconstitutional on the ground that it failed to fix any term of office for the members of the road Commission created by the Act. He sustained the bill, and made permanent his injunction restraining the members of the new Commission named in the Act from acting. Defendants appealed.

The Act created a commission of three and named…