Smails v. White
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was a petition in error from a final order of the district court of Lancaster county, dismissing an appeal taken by the defendants from a judgment of the probate court in a civil action therein determined, in May, 1875. in contending that the appeal act of 1875 was unconstitutional, cited The People v. McCollum, 1 Web., 199. Cooley Const.
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This was a petition in error from a final order of the district court of Lancaster county, dismissing an appeal taken by the defendants from a judgment of the probate court in a civil action therein determined, in May, 1875. in contending that the appeal act of 1875 was unconstitutional, cited The People v. McCollum, 1 Web., 199. Cooley Const. Lim., 151. State v. Silver, 9 Nevada, 227. Winona v. Waldron, 11 Minn., 515. People v. Mahoney, 13 Mich., 497. Draper v. Falley, 33 Lnd., 470. The Mayor v. Trigg, 46 Mo., 288. City of Portland v. Stock, 2 Oregon, 69. cited Bird v. The County of Wasco, 3…
1Opinion of the Court
Lake, Ch. J.
This case calls for a construction of the act of the legislature “regulating the taking of appeals from the judgments of probate judges and justices of the peace,” approved, February 24th, 1875. It is contended, on the part of the plaintiff in error, that it violates the provision of the constitution, then in force, which declares that “no bill shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title; and no law shall be revived or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived, and the sections amended; and the section or sections so amended…
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