Jones v. Williams

This case is pending in the Supreme Court on certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District. The only question involved is the constitutionality of chapter 18, Acts of the Second Called Session of the Forty-second Legislature.

For many years-the attorney general’s department has ruled that there was no constitutional basis for the enactment of measures of this character, except section 10 of article 8, *98authorizing the release of taxes in cases of great public calamity, and the present attorney general, in keeping with the established policy of the department, has…