Jemison v. Town of Ft. Deposit

The opinion of the Court of Appeals in this case is approved. 108 So. 396. We think the purpose of the act in question was to give cities and towns one year in which to issue bonds for the payment of outstanding indebtedness not evidenced by bonds, and that the limitation of time within which such bonds might issue began to run only when the power to issue came into being, viz., from the approval of the Governor, which, in the circumstances of this case, fixed the date of the birth of the law. In other words, we think the controlling idea as to time was to give cities and towns one year in…