Hart v. Backstrom

I am unable to agree with the majority opinion, that chapter 231 of the Laws of 1920 is constitutional. I think it is clearly in conflict with section 61 of the Constitution. This act nowhere refers to section 5266; Hemingway’s Code (section 2933, Code of 1906), and section 5271, Hemingway’s Code (section 2936, Code of 1906), and is not a complete enactment within itself upon the subject of where the list shall be filed and what procedure may be taken to redeem the land; and it is necessary to take the two sections of the Code referred to above and the act, by striking ont of the Code section…