State Highway & Public Works Commission v. Cobb

Appeal oe DeeeNdaitt Eddie Cobb.

Seawell, J.

This interesting case is admittedly novel in the history of jurisprudence in so far as the attorneys concerned, and the court as well, are aware. Without precedent to guide us, we do not find in the argument of the able counsel for the plaintiff sufficient legal ground to sustain the judgment of the trial court.

Under the law creating the State Highway and Public Works Commission, that body succeeded to all the rights and powers and duties of the State Prison Department — eh. 172, see. 32, Public Laws of 1933. Although the act incorporating the State…