Legal Opinion
McLucas v. State Bridge Building Authority
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 14, 1953No. 18284PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Candler, Justice.
The State Bridge Building Authority, a body corporate and politic, was created by an act of the legislature which the Governor approved on March 25, 1953. Ga. L. 1953, p. 626. By the creating act, it was given perpetual corporate existence and was deemed thereby to be an instrumentality of the State and a public corporation. An acute need for additional bridges and a desire to replace many substandard bridges, the construction and replacement of which as a part of the State’s highway system which the State was unable to finance without creating a State debt, was the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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