Lyman v. Chase

Of its own accord the court ordered a rehearing because of the importance of determining, before public funds are expended in putting the law into operation, whether some other constitutional provision is likely to be urged against it than the ones the parties to this appeal saw fit to raise. Neither appellant nor respondent suggested that this act violated art. 4, § 27, of the constitution, reading: "No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title," until after the decision was filed. Though not blind to the possibility that someone might make the claim, the…