Deal v. Mississippi County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Eox, ' Judge. (1) The law is constitutional; all laws are upheld by courts, unless clearly repugnant to the constitution. State ex rel. v. LaugMin, 75 Mo. 148; Slate v. Able, 65 Mo. 357; Phillips v. Railroad, 86 Mo. 540; State n.
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. — Hon. J. D. Eox, ' Judge. (1) The law is constitutional; all laws are upheld by courts, unless clearly repugnant to the constitution. State ex rel. v. LaugMin, 75 Mo. 148; Slate v. Able, 65 Mo. 357; Phillips v. Railroad, 86 Mo. 540; State n. Hope, 100 Mo. 347. This law was passed under the constitution of 1865, not 1875. Bounties are given to promote the public good, and the intention of the legislature should not be defeated by the courts. The public is benefited, as well as the individual recipient of the bounty. We paya bounty for wolf scalps; this is a…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
This cause originated in the county court of Mississippi county, Missouri, February 1888, by appellant filing demand for $404, as a third annual 'bounty for planting two hundred and two acres of forest trees, wherein appellant states, in substance, that' in order to avail himself of the benefits of chapter 107, Revised Statutes, 1879, entitled “Of forest trees,” about the month of February, 1882, and within ten years after the passage of an act of the legislature, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act to encourage the growth of forest trees,” approved February 4, 1875,. he planted…
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