Smith v. Carter

The hill in the present case was filed by certain taxpayers, of Washington county to test the constitution*3ality of chapter 43 of the First Extra Session of the Acts of the legislature of 1913.

The first section of the act reads:

“That road improvement districts may be organized in the State of Tennessee for the purpose of constructing new roads, bridges, and culverts, and maintaining public roads already established, and to have full control of all public roads within the territory, embraced within such road improvement districts; and such road improvement districts organized under the…