State Ex Rel. Harmon v. Murphy

The petition charges that the Court of Domestic Relations Act of September 28, 1923 (Gen. Sess. Acts 1923, pp. 612-625), under which the respondent Murphy claims to he exercising the powers and performing the duties of a judge of such a court for Jefferson county, is invalid because it violates in numerous particulars the provisions of section 45 of the Constitution. The grounds of invalidity relied upon may be thus condensed and restated:(1) The title and body of the act contain two subjects.(2), The body of the act contains matter not expressed in its title.(3) Section 3 of the act…