State ex rel. Moose v. Kansas City & Memphis Railway & Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Crittenden Chancery Court; John M. Rose, Special Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. March 1, 1887, the Arkansas General Assembly passed an act to provide for the collection of overdue taxes from corporations doing business in the State. Acts of 1887, p. 33; Kirby’s Digest, § § 7204 to 7213, inclusive. It was amended by an act of May 30,1911, as to the 'compensation to be paid to counsel employed to assist the Attorney General.
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Appeal from Crittenden Chancery Court; John M. Rose, Special Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. March 1, 1887, the Arkansas General Assembly passed an act to provide for the collection of overdue taxes from corporations doing business in the State. Acts of 1887, p. 33; Kirby’s Digest, § § 7204 to 7213, inclusive. It was amended by an act of May 30,1911, as to the 'compensation to be paid to counsel employed to assist the Attorney General. Acts of 1911, p. 324. The title of that act was “An act to amend section 7204 of Kirby’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, which provides for the…
1Opinion of the Court
McGill, Special J.,
(after ¡stating the facts). The first contention in -support of the demurrer to the complaint is that the ¡act of 1913 ¡should be so construed -as to limit its retrospective effect to that feature -of the amendment which restricts the remedy to -property owned by a corporation at the time -of the passage of the amendatory •act, -and, if not so limited, -so as to confine its retrospective -operation to the period between the passage of the act of 1911 and the act of 1913.(1) The established rule is that all statutes are to be construed as having only ¡a -prospective…
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