Combs v. Gray

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). The correctness of the decision of the circuit court that proposed Amendment No. 16 was legally adopted and that it is now a part of our State Constitution depends upon the construction to be placed upon what has been commonly referred to as Amendment No. 10, or the Initiative and Referendum Amendment, in connection with our various decisions construing the same. Amendment No. 10 has been placed among the amendments to the Constitution in Crawford & Moses’ Digest, and called by the digesters Amendment No. 7.

Inasmuch as the amendment must be considered in…