McBurney v. Ruth

The defendants appeal from an adverse judgment rejecting their constitutional challenge to a proposed public bond issue. We affirm.

The Tennessee Valley Exhibit Commission of Alabama ("Commission") is a public corporation created by the Alabama Legislature in 1984. (Ala. Acts 1984, No. 84-292; now codified at Alabama Code 1975, § 41-9-780 et seq.) The Governor appoints one representative from each of sixteen Alabama counties, who make up the membership of the Commision.

The Commission was created, primarily, to establish and maintain an information and exhibit center in order to provide the…