Troutman v. Crippen

By the bill complainants attack the validity of chapter 183, Private Acts of 1937, the general purpose of which is to create a commission form of government for Knox County, so that its affairs shall be administered by three commissioners instead of by the Quarterly County Court, composed of twenty-five members. Such duties as are conferred upon said County Court by the constitution are unaffected by the act.

Under the provisions of the act such road duties as were being performed by complainants were transferred to the board of commissioners. They were legislated out of .office, and no…