San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co. v. Blair

House. Bill No. 39, entitled “An act to relieve the crowded condition of the dockets of the Supreme Court,” etc., hereinafter called Relief Act, was passed by the Thirty-Fifth Legislature, and approved March 15, 1917, effective immediately. Acts 1917, c. 76, p. 142.-Shortly afterward, treating said statute as valid, and without then writing upon the subject, our Supreme Court, acting as a court, this writer dissenting, undertook to put it into operation, thereby, in effect, upholding its constitutionality. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Ry. Co. v. Blair (opinion by our Chief Justice Phillips,…