Board of Revenue and Road Com'rs v. Puckett

FOSTER, Justice.

This case is controlled by the -validity or not of an act of the Legislature passed over the veto of the Governor July 25, 1931 (Local Acts 1931, page 249), by which an appropriation of funds from the general treasury of Mobile county was made for Mrs. Puckett on account of the death of her husband, which the act alleges occurred while he was performing his duties as an employee of Mobile county.

The first contention made on behalf of the county authorities is that it violates section 94 of the Constitution. This court, in Garland v. Board of Revenue, 87 Ala. 223, 6 So. 402,…