Berry v. Hayes

The constitutionality of Chapter 45, Private Acts of 1923, is involved. That act provided “that the State Highway Commission shall not have the right or power to impose expenses upon” Williamson County, designated by population, “without the consent of such County. ’ ’ In exercise of the power conferred by the General Highway Acts, Chapter 74, Acts of 1917, and Chapter 149, Acts of 1919, providing for a “system of State Highways” and expressly empowering the Highway Department to designate all such roadways and to prose cute condemnation proceedings, and requiring all counties alike to pay…