Trapnell v. Candler County

1. The act approved August 12, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 168), creating the Board of Roads and Revenues of Candler County, conferred on that body, among other things, power to direct and control all of the property of the county according to law, “and generally to have and exercise all the powers heretofore vested in the ordinary of said county when sitting for county purposes.”(a) The powers so conferred upon the commissioners comprehended, among others, the power to select a site upon which to construct a court-house, and in the exercise of such power the commissioners have -a broad discretion…