Home Insurance Co. v. Taxing District

KREeman, J.,

delivered the following dissenting opinion.

The question in this case is, whether an existing statute can be repealed under our present constitution without complying with the last clause sec. 17 of Art. 2, of that instrument. In other words, whether a statute may be repealed by implication as well as by direct reference, as required ? I think this is the real question. . The clause of the constitution is, “all acts which repeal, revive or amend former laws, shall recite in their caption, or otherwise, the title or substance of the law repealed, revived or amended.”

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