Bell v. Hart
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Sbelby County. —Hon. F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
delivered the opinion of .the Court.
*588The validity of chapter 126 of the Acts of 1919' is attacked in this case on the ground that the act contains two subjects in violation of section 17 of article 2 of the Constitution.
The title of the act is:
“An act to remove disabilities of coverture from married women, and to extend to them the statutes of limitation and to exempt to them a homestead.”
Without undertaking to quote the entire statute, it may be said that by section 1, all the common-law disabilities of married women are removed, and by section 4 it is provided that a homestead of real"…
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