Mashburn v. North Arkansas Highway Improvement District No. 3

The testimony developed the fact, as is stated in the concurring opinion of Mr. Justice HART, that the State of Missouri had laid out and unproved a highway from Kansas City, in that State, to a point on the Missouri line near Mammoth Spring, in this State, and it is just here that I think the engineer of the district fell into error. He evidently thought it would be a good idea to extend this road as far as possible into this State; but that purpose, however laudable, was not authorized by the act of the General Assembly authorizing the improvement.

The purpose of the act under review was to…