Spier v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Local legislation. Constitutional law. Before Judge Atkinson. Effingham superior court. May term, 1887. Spier et al., commissioners of roads and revenues of Effingham county, recovered a judgment against Morgan, and he moved to set it aside because there were no commissioners of roads and revenues for said county the act organizing said board being unconstitutional, null and void. This motion was sustained, and the commissioners excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The only question in this case is, whether the act of December 13, 1871, (acts 1871-2, 222,) is violative of the constitution of 1868, article 3, section 4, paragraph 5, which provides that no law or ordinance shall pass which refers to more than one subject-matter, or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof. The court below held that it was unconstitutional and void, because, he says, it contains more than one subject-matter. The title to this act is, “ An act to create a board of commissioners of roads and revenues in the counties of Floyd,…
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