State v. Gisch

The defendant was arrested and fined for a violation of the City Ordinance prohibiting private markets to be kept within a radius of six squares of any public market. That Ordinance was passed under the authority of a law of 1878. Sess. Acts, p. 152. The law is attacked for unconstitutionality, in that its object is not expressed in its title.

The title is comprehensive, and sufficiently suggests the subject matter of the legislation. The special objection appears to be that an Act, ■conferring the power to regulate private markets does not include the power to prohibit them. The law of 1878…