State Ex Rel. Franklin County v. Hester

The purpose of this suit is to test the constitutionality of the Act of July 22, 1931. Acts, p. 604.

The title of that act purports to amend section 4% of the General Revenue Act of 1919, p. 284. No other feature of the act refers in terms to the Revenue Act of 1919. But it relates to the matter embraced in section 4% of the Revenue Act. That act created a trial tax of $3 in every case in the circuit court and directed its payment into the general funds of the state treasury. The act of 1931 re-enacts the provision for a trial tax fixing the same amount, but provides that one-half of it shall…