Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 31, 1939No. 6 Div. 431PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Justice.
The quo warranto proceeding is rested upon the theory that the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (General Acts, Extra Session 1936-37, page 40) is void as violative of section 93 of our State Constitution, the here material provisions of which read as follows: “The state shall not engage in works of internal improvement, nor lend money or its credit in aid of such; nor shall the state be interested in any private or corporate enterprise, or lend money or its credit to any individual, association, or corporation.”
The courts, in the exercise of their power to annul a…
2Cases cited56 opinions
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- Ellis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
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3Cited by96 opinions
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