Lovett v. Sandersville Railroad Company

Grice, Justice.

Counsel for the defendant in error argue that in the passage of the act approved August 18, 1924 (Ga. L. 1924, p. 75), the legislature has invaded the province of the judicial department, and that any effort on the part of the lawmakers to bind courts as to the amount of time the latter shall allow for argument is futile and void, because it infringes upon the exercise by the courts of those functions which the constitution commits to them. This is but another way of arguing that the statute is unconstitutional. Whether it is or not, however, is not a matter now before us.…