Toledo, Logansport & Burlington Railway Co. v. Nordyke

In Hingle v. The State, 24 Ind. 28, we defined a special statute, in the sense of the 22d and 23d sections . of article four of the constitution of the State, to be “ such as at common law the courts would not notice, unless it were *96pleaded and proved, like any other fact.” The chief question before us now, is whether so much of the act of March 4, 1863, (Acts 1863, p. 25,) as provides for the enforcement of judgments rendered under the act, is in conflict with the sections of the constitution referred to. This question can only be determined in the negative, if we adhere to the doctrine of…