Johnson v. Pinkley
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Carroll Chancery Court, Western District; B. F. McMahan, Chancellor; The court erred in failing to sustain the demurrer to subdivision B. C and D of paragraph 5 and act No. 517, Acts 1919, is not unconstitutional for the reasons set forth in said subdivisions of paragraph 5. The act in no way violates article 5, section 23, of our Constitution, as it does not attempt to revive, amend or extend the provisions of any former law.
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Appeal from Carroll Chancery Court, Western District; B. F. McMahan, Chancellor; The court erred in failing to sustain the demurrer to subdivision B. C and D of paragraph 5 and act No. 517, Acts 1919, is not unconstitutional for the reasons set forth in said subdivisions of paragraph 5. The act in no way violates article 5, section 23, of our Constitution, as it does not attempt to revive, amend or extend the provisions of any former law. It is more of a repeal of a formeer law enacted in 1915 and known as Act 156, and does not violate the Constitution. . 133 Ark. 157. It is easy to ascertain…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
The General Assembly of 1915 enacted a statute, approved March 19, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 676), which provided for stock-law districts to be formed upon vote of the qualified electors of three or more townships in any county. The statute provided that an election shall be ordered by the county court upon petition of twenty-five per centum of the qualified electors of three or more townships, and that if a majority of the electors in all of the area mentioned in the petition shall vote in favor of the adoption of the statute the district shall be formed.
A stock-law district was duly formed in…
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