Evans v. Browne
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from tho Marion Common Pleas, Tho appellee was the plaintiff below,and filed bis complaint under oath, alleging, that by an act of the General Assembly of tho State of Indiana, passed at the special session thereof in the year 1869, entitled, “An act making specific appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy,” which act was in fall force and effect on tho 24th day of May, 1869, and from that time hitherto; it…
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APPEAL from tho Marion Common Pleas, Tho appellee was the plaintiff below,and filed bis complaint under oath, alleging, that by an act of the General Assembly of tho State of Indiana, passed at the special session thereof in the year 1869, entitled, “An act making specific appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy,” which act was in fall force and effect on tho 24th day of May, 1869, and from that time hitherto; it was, among other things, enacted as follows: “ Sec. 17. That Thomas M. Browne be allowed the sum of fifteen hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtFrazer, J.
The following questions only, are necessary to be considered in order to reach a decision of this cause, viz: 1. Must the courts of this-State take judicial know-edge of what is and -what is not the public statutory law of the State? 2. 'When a statute is authenticated by the signatures of the presiding officers of the two houses, will the courts search further, to ascertain whether such facts existed as gave constitutional warrant to those officers to thus authenticate the act as having received legislativo sanction in such manner as to give it the force of law?
1. There are some cases in our…
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