Lipscomb v. Lenon

Wood J.

The only question presented by this appeal is whether or not act No. 13 of the Acts of the 'Special Assembly of 1923, approved October 10, 1923, is unconstitutional. The act is entitled “An act to .authorize the formation of improvement districts for the building of auditoriums for public meetings.” Section 1 provides in effect that a place of public assembly is a 'matter of public necessity where there are as many as fifty thousand inhabitants in any congressional township, in this State or in any two or three such contiguous townships or contiguous parts thereof, and that the…