Baer v. Arkansas State Highway Commission

These are cases consolidated for the purposes of trial, brought separately in the second division of the Pulaski Circuit Court by appellants against the Arkansas State Highway Commission to recover from it for damages on account of personal injuries received by the several appellants on account of the alleged negligence of the employees of appellee while engaged in repairing certain State highways. The action sounded in tort.

Demurrers were filed to the several complaints on the ground that appellee was and is not liable in damages for the negligence of its employees.

The court sustained the…