Tift v. Bush

Head, Justice.

This court will judicially recognize the official census of the United States of 1940, and, under this census, Troup County was the only county in Georgia having a population which would fall within the population classification as provided by the act of 1949 (Ga. L. 1949, pp. 1460-1465), of not less than 40,000 and not more than 50,000 inhabitants. It is apparent from reading the act that it was intended to apply only to Troup County, the county in which it was advertised as a special law, and the only county to which it applied at the time of its passage.

Even if it could be…