State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Lee

The opinion of the majority appears to me to be so fundamentally wrong as to call for a dissenting opinion pointing out what the basic error is, according to our former decisions, as to what constitutes local and special legislation.

This is a suit brought by the State ag’ainst the collector of Bradley county and his bondsmen to collect a debt due the state. It was alleged in the complaint thatappellee Lee as collector had collected moneys belonging to the state of Arkansas in the total sum of $42,450.31, which he had failed and refused to pay over to the state, but had converted same to his…