Brown v. State Ex Rel. Merland

The demurrer is general and

challenges the sufficiency of the answer as a defense. In argument two grounds are urged: First, that the statutes in question are of a general nature and do not have uniform operation throughout the state, in violation of Section 26, Article II, of the Constitution; second, that they are laws conferring corporate power by special act, in violation of Section 1, Article XIII, of the Constitution.

The conclusions we have reached on the first of these grounds make it unnecessary to consider the second. Section 26 of Article II provides, in part:

“All laws, of a general…