Brams v. State

'CAMPBELL), J.

Pursuant to proposal by chapter 34, Laws Special Session. 1918, the people of this state, at the November, 1918, General Election, adopted as section 14, art. 13, Constitution of South Dakota, the following: “The mining, distribution and sale of coal are hereby declared to be works of public necessity and importance in which the state may engage, and the legislature may enact suitable laws to carry this provision into effect and to empower the state to acquire, by purchase or appropriation, all lands, structures, easements, tracts, rights of way, equipment, cars, motive power,…