Walker v. City Council of Montgomery
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court- of Montgomery. Tried before tlie Hon. A. I). Sayre. Tliis was an action brought by the City Council of Montgomery against J. Lee Walker, to recover $200 alleged to he due to the plaintiff from the defendant, for his engaging in the business of retailing spirituous, vinous and malt liquors within the corporate limits of the city of Montgomery, without paying a license to said city as is provided by ordinance of the city duly and regularly passed.
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Appeal from the City Court- of Montgomery. Tried before tlie Hon. A. I). Sayre. Tliis was an action brought by the City Council of Montgomery against J. Lee Walker, to recover $200 alleged to he due to the plaintiff from the defendant, for his engaging in the business of retailing spirituous, vinous and malt liquors within the corporate limits of the city of Montgomery, without paying a license to said city as is provided by ordinance of the city duly and regularly passed. The defendant interposed several pleas setting up the unconstitutionality of an act of the legislature approved February…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, C. J. —
Section 20, Art. 4 of the constitution of 1875 was in this language: “No bill shall become a law until it shall have been referred to a committee of each house and returned therefrom.” When the Constitutional Convention of 1901 came to deal with this matter of referring bills to committees, etc., it was suggested that certain eiril practices had grown up in the conduct of committees of the house in respect of bills referred, and it was sought to eradicate these practices by certain emendations of this section 20 as carried and embodied, into the new constitution. The…
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