Myrick v. Brooks County

Myrick and others, “residents, citizens and taxpayers” of Brooks County, filed a petition against the persons composing the board of county commissioners “as county commissioners” and “individually,” and against Brooks County, seeking injunction to restrain the carrying out by the defendants of a contract made by them with the State Highway Department of Georgia, under which “the Board of County Commissioners of Brooks County” undertook “to secure the right of way for route No. 33 from the Okapilco Creek into Quitman,” and “to build and grade the -road, ready for paving, without cost to the…