Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Pulaski County

When the State Highway Commission undertakes to appropriate to its own use a portion of the county turnback fund of any county, then certainty the State Highway Commission should pursue the strict letter of the law and should show court action by documents and not b}^ casual conversations.

The record here shows that no petition was ever filed by the State Highway Commission in the county court of Pulaski county in accordance with either Act 205 of 1929 or Act 281 of 1941. All that occurred were two informal conversations. In October, 1940, when Judge Burlingame was the county judge of Pulaski…