Mashburn v. North Arkansas Highway Improvement District No. 3

The act creating the highway district in question provides that it is formed for the purpose of improving certain public roads, which are described as running from one town to another, or from one town through other towns, to the place where the roads end. This indicates that it was the intention of the Legislature to improve the existing public roads.

Another section of the act provides that it is the duty of the commissioners to improve the roads herein described by grading, draining, and surfacing them with such material as the plans for the district may designate, and by straightening and…