Parke v. Bradley
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge. Bill by Thomas D. Parke and others against R. L. Bradley, as State Treasurer, Samuel W. Welch, State Health Officer, and üie Medical Association of the State of Alabama. Judgment for defendants, ana complainants appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge. Bill by Thomas D. Parke and others against R. L. Bradley, as State Treasurer, Samuel W. Welch, State Health Officer, and üie Medical Association of the State of Alabama. Judgment for defendants, ana complainants appeal. The bill is filed by complainants as taxpayers and citizens of Jefferson county for the purpose and with the prayer to prevent by injunction any payment by the state treasury of funds appropriated by the Legislature for use by the state board of health, or its authorized agents, in the discharge of their public…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
[1] It is too well settled for further -controversy that the Legislature of Alabama may delegate to officers, or boards, or commissioners, of its own creation and appointment, various governmental powers for the more efficient administration of the laws, subject always to the clearly implied limitation of the Constitution that the lawmaking power, invested, exclusively in the Legislature, cannot be delegated to any other department of the government, or to any other agency, either public or private. R. R. Commission v. Ala. North. Ry. Co., 182 Ala. 357, 62 South. 749; Fox v. McDonald, 101…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Boyd v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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- Fox v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- Farrior v. New England Mortgage Security Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1889
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