Legal Opinion

Boyd v. Edwards

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 26, 1969No. 6 Div. 637PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding sustaining a demurrer to the bill and to its several aspects and dismissing the bill.

The sole question presented is whether Act No. 22, Acts of Alabama, Special Sessions 1956, p. 290, a local act for the City of Birmingham, violates that part of Section 45 of the Constitution of 1901, which provides in part that “no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Ex parte PollardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1866
  2. State v. RogersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
  3. Nachman v. State Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
  4. City Council v. BirdsongSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899
  5. State Docks Commission v. State Ex Rel. JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Alabama Power Co. v. Citizens of StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1999
  2. Fowler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1983
  3. State v. L.N.A.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2001

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