Massey v. Bowles
Supreme Court of Georgia
. Petition for injunction. Before Judge Butt.'. Muscogee 'county. V April' .4, 1896. An act of the legislature, approved December 13, 1866, provides, “That, in the county of Muscogee, all sales by sheriffs, constables, executors, administrators, .guardians and trustees, may be held at any of the street comers on Broad street, between Bryan and Crawford Streets, in the city of Columbus, upon giving the legal notice designating the time and place of sale.”
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. Petition for injunction. Before Judge Butt.'. Muscogee 'county. V April' .4, 1896. An act of the legislature, approved December 13, 1866, provides, “That, in the county of Muscogee, all sales by sheriffs, constables, executors, administrators, .guardians and trustees, may be held at any of the street comers on Broad street, between Bryan and Crawford Streets, in the city of Columbus, upon giving the legal notice designating the time and place of sale.” Acts 1866, p. 42. By an act approved October 10, 1868, the foregoing act was amended by inserting the words, “or at any regular auction…
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
1. The act of December 13th, 1866 (Acts 1866, p. 42), “to change the place of holding legal sales in the county of Muscogee,” and the act to amend the same, approved October 10th, 1868 (Acts 1868, p. 164), were valid and constitutional laws under the constitutions of 1865 and 1868, there being nothing in either of these constitutions prohibiting the enactment of special laws in cases for which provision had been made by an existing general law. Burks v. Morgan, 84 Ga. 627.
2. These special acts not being inconsistent with the constitution of 1877, were kept of force by- paragraph 4, section 1,…
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