Ex-Parte Wells
Supreme Court of Florida
Statement of the case: This case involves the constitutionality of the statute entitled “ An act to dissolve, municipal corporations under circumstances therein stated and to provide provisional governments for the same,” approved January 28th, 1885, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 12, 1885. The first section of the former act provides that “ whenever any city or town incorporated under the act for the incorporation of cities and towns, approved February 4,…
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Statement of the case: This case involves the constitutionality of the statute entitled “ An act to dissolve, municipal corporations under circumstances therein stated and to provide provisional governments for the same,” approved January 28th, 1885, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 12, 1885. The first section of the former act provides that “ whenever any city or town incorporated under the act for the incorporation of cities and towns, approved February 4, 1869,” is indebted to the amount of $200,000, and has defaulted and still defaults in the payment of its interest…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
I. The first objection urged is-that the first section of the-act is “ wanting in uniform operation, as it does not purport to apply to all the cities and towns in the State, which are in a similar financial condition, but only to those which were organized under the general act of March 4,1869, for-the incorporation of cities and towns, making no provision whatever for its operation upon those that, were organized anterior to the passage of the latter act or upon those that may be organized, in the future under such act or any other-subsequent legislation.”. Aré there, any cities or towns in…
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- Cochran v. Van SurlayNew York Supreme Court · 1838
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- Town of Enterprise v. State ex rel. Attorney-GeneralSupreme Court of Florida · 1892
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