State Ex Rel. Cline v. Schricker

Appellants seek to challenge the validity of certain acts of the 86th Regular Session of the General Assembly. The complaint charged in substance that House Bills numbered 379 (Ch. 257), 380 (Ch. 232), 381 (Ch. 233), and 25 (Ch. 277), and also "fifteen or twenty other bills involving expenditures and activities of various units and functions of government," were invalid for the reason that they were each passed by the General Assembly after the hour of 12 o'clock midnight, Monday, March 7, 1949, which under § 29 of Article 4 of the constitution was the time of expiration of the regular…