Beach v. Bradstreet
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for an injunction requiring the defendant, as comptroller of the State, to prescribe regulations looking to the enforcement and execution of chapter 187 of the Public Acts of 1911, providing for the payment of $30 annually by the State to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, resident in this State, brought to and reserved by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, I., upon a demurrer to the complaint, for the advice of this court.
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Suit for an injunction requiring the defendant, as comptroller of the State, to prescribe regulations looking to the enforcement and execution of chapter 187 of the Public Acts of 1911, providing for the payment of $30 annually by the State to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, resident in this State, brought to and reserved by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, I., upon a demurrer to the complaint, for the advice of this court. The complaint sets up these facts: The General Assembly, in Public Acts of 1911, chapter 187, enacted: "Every person resident in this…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The range of powers granted by our! Constitution to each department of government is! limited by the Constitution of the United States and! by that of our State (McGovern v. Mitchell, 78 Conn. 536, 545, 63 Atl. 433); and whether, as has been so often declared in judicial decision, it is limited by, and to be exercised within, those fundamental principles of natural justice which are held to be the ligament of the social compact upon which all constitutional government rests, we need, not now consider.
The delegation of legislative power to our General Assembly covers the whole field of…
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