Economic Power & Construction Co. v. City of Buffalo
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered September 25,1908, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. An act was passed by the legislature of the state of New York in 1893 and approved by the governor April 22, 1893, with the following title: “An act to incorporate the Economic Power and Construction Company.”
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered September 25,1908, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. An act was passed by the legislature of the state of New York in 1893 and approved by the governor April 22, 1893, with the following title: “An act to incorporate the Economic Power and Construction Company.” It is chapter 459 of the Laws of that year, and section 1 provides that certain persons named therein, “ and their associates, successors and assigns,…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The appellants contend that the act of the legislature under which the plaintiff claims to have been incorporated is in violation of article 3, section 16, of the Constitution of the state of Hew York which provides as follows: “Ho private or local bill, which may be passed by the legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.”
Our first inquiry is whether the act in question is a private bill. Blackstone in his Commentaries (Yol. 1, p. 86), says: “ Statutes are either general or special, public or private. A general or public act is an universal…
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