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Trailway Oil Company v. City of Mobile

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 14, 1960No. 1 Div. 792PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SIMPSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court in Equity of Mobile County, holding Act No. 80, Acts of Alabama 1956, Vol. 1, p. 115, unconstitutional as in violation of §§ 104(18) and 106 of the Alabama Constitution of 1901.

The operative provision of the act in question reads as follows:

“Section 1. That no municipality whose corporate limits do not lie within or extend into and embrace and include a portion of Baldwin County shall have or exercise police jurisdiction within Baldwin County; nor shall any such municipality exercise police jurisdiction, police powers or…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Hunter v. City of PittsburghSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
  2. Yeilding v. State Ex Rel. WilkinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  3. City of Ensley v. SimpsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  4. State Ex Rel. Brooks v. GullattSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
  5. Newton v. City of TuscaloosaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Holt Civic Club v. City of TuscaloosaSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. McMillan, Ltd. v. WARRIOR DRILLING & ENG.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1987
  3. Alexander v. State Ex Rel. CarverSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  4. Siegelman v. FolmarSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
  5. City of Daphne v. City of Spanish FortSupreme Court of Alabama · 2003

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