Court Opinion

ID: 9665569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:51:42.287269+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:16.823901
License: Public Domain

Hallows, J.
(dissenting). While the proposed plan for the acceleration and completion of the interstate highway system has a laudable public purpose, the end does not justify the means adopted. The leasing or sale of part of a public highway to a dummy corporation to effectuate financing and secure available federal funds to complete it goes far beyond any scheme involving dummy corporations which this court has previously held to be constitutional. By this device for all practical purposes the debt limitation of the constitution is avoided and a long-term debt created contrary to art. VIII, secs. 4 and 10. The plan extends the hands of Esau but speaks with the voice of Jacob.