Simpson v. Matthews

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court upholding the validity of a statute permitting adjoining landowners to form an improvement district and to condemn land adjacent to a State highway in order to construct a reservoir for the alleged protection thereof. No separate or particular statement of facts is necessary, for the reason that, on the consideration of the motion for a rehearing, the court has concluded that this case should he decided upon the single point whether the act is unconstitutional as being local or special act.

In construing article 5, § 25, of our Constitution,…