Legal Opinion

In re Dexter-Greenfield Drainage Dist.

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided December 31, 1915No. 1782PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Chaves County; McClure, Judge. Jaccpiez Michelet filed a remonstrance to the report, of the commissioners of the Dexter-Greenfield Drainage District for assessments. The remonstrance' was overruled, and he appeals. Chapter 84, L. 1913, contravenes sec. 16, art. 1, State Const., in that it embraces within itself two separate and distinct subjects.

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Appeal from District Court, Chaves County; McClure, Judge. Jaccpiez Michelet filed a remonstrance to the report, of the commissioners of the Dexter-Greenfield Drainage District for assessments. The remonstrance' was overruled, and he appeals. Chapter 84, L. 1913, contravenes sec. 16, art. 1, State Const., in that it embraces within itself two separate and distinct subjects. Ballentyne v. Wiekersham, 75 Ala. 533; Builders’ ’& Painters’ Supply Co. v. Lucas, 119 Ala. 309, 34 South. 416; Brown v. State, 79 Ga. 334, 4 S. E. 861; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Cooledge, 86 Ga. 104, 13 S. E. 364;…

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OP THE COURT.

PARKER, J.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of the Fifth judicial district within and for the county of Chaves, overruling the remonstrance of the appellant, Jacquez Michelet, to the report of the-commissioners of the Dexter-Greenfield drainage district upon assessments for benelts, damages, and costs of construction in said district theretofore filed in said court. . ■

There are five assignments of error, all of which seem'to ■ be relied on by the appellant, attacking the constitutionality of what is known as the drainage láwjrf'New Mexico, being…

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2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. In re the Appointment of a Revisor of the StatutesWisconsin Supreme Court · 1910
  2. Connecticut River Railroad v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
  3. People ex rel. Dunham v. MorganIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
  4. Town of Macon v. PattyMississippi Supreme Court · 1879
  5. Blake v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1884

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3Cited by19 opinions

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  5. State v. GomezNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1929

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