State Ex Rel. Buckwalter v. City of Lakeland

(dissenting in part). — I concur fully in the major premises of the reasoning employed in the able opinion of Mr. Justice Buford, to the effect (1) that the Legislature cannot constitutionally pass any statute which impairs the obligation of an existing contract, or (2) which takes away or substantially impairs the only effective remedy for its enforcement; or (3) which denies to any person the equal protection of the laws; or (4) which divests, in whole or in part, th'e constitutional jurisdiction of this Court and the circuit courts to grant the full s'cope of that relief which was…