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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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63 is a 1 :al entity separate and apart from the State. < Precisely in point h is the case of Saint V. Allen, 172 La. 134 So. 246. In that case the Louisiana Highway Commission was incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of Louisiana providing that the commission shall be a body corporate and as such may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any •ourt of justice." Other sections of the same Act provided that every contract for highway improvement, under the Act, must be made in the name of the State of Louisiana, be signed by the State Engineer and the other contracting party, and approved by the Commission, and that no such contract shall be entered into, nor shall any such work be authorized to create a liability on the part of the State in excess of the funds available for expenditures under the terms of the Act. Another section provided that the cost of all highway and bridge construction, under the Act, shall be paid out of the general highway fund, although local aid may be received. Another ection provided that the State, acting through the Commission, may acquire by purchase, lease or donation, and may operate gravel beds, shell or rock deposit and the like. Section 55 of Article 7 of the Constitution of Louisiina provided that there shall be a Department of Justice consisting of an Attorney General, elected Sec•very tion 56 provided that: "The Attorney General * * * shall be learned in the law * * * shall attend to, and have charge of all legal matters in which the State has an nterest, or to which the State is a party, with power and authority to institute and prosecute ntnvene g, civil or criminal, as they may deem neces A
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