Ward v. State Ex Rel. Lea

This proceeding presents for review the constitutionality of the act approved July 17, 1031, purporting to establish “an inferior court in each city of the State of Alabama now or hereafter having, according to the last or any subsequent Federal census, a population of over 150,000.” General Acts 1931, page 528.

There was no advertisement of this proposed act. It was passed as a general act, and the point most strenuously pressed, and upon which the lower court’s decision rested, was that it was in fact a local law and void as violative of section 100 of our Constitution. For its generality…