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STATE OF GEORGIA v. BLASINGAME

19165.

212 Ga. 222 (1956)

91 S.E.2d 341

STATE OF GEORGIA v. BLASINGAME et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 9, 1956.

Rehearing February 16, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Paul Miller, Assistant Attorney-General, for plaintiff in error.

E. Way Highsmith, Hugh E. Wright, Moise, Post & Gardner, Highsmith & Highsmith, J. H. Highsmith, for parties at interest, not parties to record.

Moore, Gibson, DeLoache & Gardner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Geo. A. Horkan, Jr., Waldo DeLoache, B. D. Murphy, contra.

Gowan, Conyers, Fending & Dickey, for parties at interest, not parties to record.

DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

Both the 1951 act (Ga. L. 1951, p. 149) as amended (Ga. L. 1952, p. 397), authorizing the State Highway Department to contract with The Ocean Highway and Port Authority, a Florida Authority, for the construction and operation of a toll road, and the contract executed May 16, 1955, in pursuance of that act, offend the Constitution (Code, Ann., § 2-5601) and are void unless authorized by the Constitution (Code, Ann., § 2-5901).

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