State Ex Rel. Ward v. Henry

By this quo warranto proceeding (State ex rel. Garrett v. Torbert, 200 Ala. 663, 77 So. 37), the constitutional validity of the Act approved July 16, 1931, establishing the office of commissioner of licenses in all counties having a population of three hundred thousand or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census, is assailed.

It is strenuously insisted the act offends section 45 of the Constitution, in that the title as well as the body of the act contains two subjects. This insistence is based upon that feature of the act, specifically mentioned in the title, providing for…