Traywick v. Gilkey

Complainants below, three in number, are county highway commissioners for Carroll County, elected for two years, in August, 1932, pursuant to provisions of chapter 662, Private Acts of 1931. They filed their bill to restrain defendants Murray Grilkey and Henry Betts, claiming appointment under chapter 579, Private Acts of 1933, from displacing complainants in their offices, on the ground that the act under which they claim title is unconstitutional. They charge (1) that the changes made by the new Act of 1933 -are colorable only, affecting in no fundamental the road law of 1931 for Carroll…