Pettit v. White County

This suit is brought under the Declaratory Judgments Act (Acts 1923, chapter 29) to test the constitutionality of chapter 618 of the Private Acts of 1925. This is an act to prevent stock from running at large in White county, designated by population, “not less than fifteen thousand seven hundred nor more than fifteen thousand seven hundred five, according to the federal census of 1920, or any subsequent federal census.”

It is conceded that our decisions sustain stock laws applicable to specific counties upon the population basis. However, in the cases upholding these laws it has appeared, as…