State on Inf. Murphy v. Brooks

The published notice of the local act here in question (appearing in the dissenting opinion), was but a publication of the title of the Act. In Wallace v. Board of Revenue, etc., 140 Ala. 491, 37 So. 321, 324, Se'ction 106 was first construed and the Court reviewed the history of former provisions, the evils intended to be remedied and defined the “substance” of the proposed law to mean “its essential and material parts, its essence, or an abstract or compendium of its substance, such as would give the people fair information of what it was”.

Our other decisions have followed in line with this…