Pearson v. Bass
Supreme Court of Georgia
Thp Court of Appeals certified to the Supreme Court that a decision of the following questions, within the purview of the-constitutional amendment creating the Court of Appeals, is necessary to the proper determination of the case, to wit: “ 1. Is the act of the General Asssembly, approved December 17, 1901 (Acts 1901, p. 63), as amended by the act approved August 2, 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 91), as to that portion thereof which appears in section 1, to wit, ‘ or to disturb in…
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Thp Court of Appeals certified to the Supreme Court that a decision of the following questions, within the purview of the-constitutional amendment creating the Court of Appeals, is necessary to the proper determination of the case, to wit: “ 1. Is the act of the General Asssembly, approved December 17, 1901 (Acts 1901, p. 63), as amended by the act approved August 2, 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 91), as to that portion thereof which appears in section 1, to wit, ‘ or to disturb in any wa,j said relation/ Unconstitutional and void, because it violates article-3, section 7, paragraph 8 (Civil Code, §…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
1. The caption of the act, which is assailed as ■being unconstitutional, after the amendment contained in the amendatory act of 1903, reads as follows: “An act to make it unlawful for any person to employ or to rent agricultural lands to, or to furnish lands to be cropped by, any person already under' contract as the employee, the tenant of agricultural lands, or the cropper of another; to provide certain penalties and defenses, *120•and for other purposes.” In support of the contention that the act contains matter different from that contained in the title, the plaintiff in error specifies the…
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