Dean v. Cole

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a complaint against a state police officer and another for want of jurisdiction.

In February, 1962, appellant J. D. Dean filed a taxpayer’s suit in the Crawford Chancery Court against appellees Bay Cole and T. B. Nash. The complaint alleged that Cole, individually and in his capacity as supervisor of the Alma Division of the Arkansas State Police, permitted appellee Nash to haul loads in that county in a grossly overloaded condition, without requiring Nash’s trucks to be weighed, or if weighed, without charging him for…