Rice v. Westcott
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before Hon. T. M. ArriNgtoN. The appellee, S. H. Westcott, brought this action against Alex Rice, seeking to recover a penalty of $200 from him for a failure on his part to enter satisfaction on the record of a judgment.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before Hon. T. M. ArriNgtoN. The appellee, S. H. Westcott, brought this action against Alex Rice, seeking to recover a penalty of $200 from him for a failure on his part to enter satisfaction on the record of a judgment. The complaint averred the recovery of a judgment by Rice against the plaintiff, the due recording thereof in the probate court of Montgomery county, the payment thereof, service by plaintiff upon the defendant of a written demand for an entry of satisfaction on the record thereof, and a failure on his part for more than three months,…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
Section 2", Art. 4 of the constitution, ordains : “Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes ; and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only ; but SO’ much thereof as is revived, amended, extended or conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length.”' The third section of the act entitled, “An act, To amend an act entitled an act to provide for the…
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