Berry v. Milliken

(concurring in part and dissenting in part.)

Concurring in the conclusions of the majority opinion as to the other constitutional issues presented in this case, I find myself unable to agree that the fifteen per cent overall debt limitation prescribed by Section 5 of Article X is not applicable here.

That section is set out in full in the majority opinion, and need not be reproduced here. Its manifest purpose is to protect property within, “any territory of this State” overlapped by two or more political subdivisions or municipal corporations against excessive taxation, by forbidding their…