 It may destroy, it' may abridge and control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the Legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable of so great a folly and so great a wrong, sweep from existence all of the municipal...  The Northwestern Reporter - Page 3221917Full view - About this book
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1869 - 658 pages
...control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable of so great a folly...unnecessary to refer to more than a few cases asserting it. Dartmouth College, Case 4, Wheat. 519 ; People v. Morris, 13 Wend. 325 ; Purdy v. The People, 4 Hill,... | |
 | 1904 - 910 pages
...control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable of so great a folly...it, the mere tenants at will of the legislature." See also He Dalton, 61 Kan. 257, 47 I* EA 380, 59 Рас. 330; State ex reí. Barton County Attorney... | |
 | 1902 - 1036 pages
...corporations in the state, and the corporations could not prevent it. We know of no limitations of this right, so far as the corporations themselves...it, the mere tenants at will of the legislature." What would be the rights of the railroad company, or of an individual holding these bonds, as against... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1152 pages
...control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it •capable of so great a...it, the mere tenants at will of the legislature': See, also, In re Dalton, 61 Kan. 257, 59 Pac. 336; State ex rel. Barton County Attorney v. Lake Keon... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Labor - 1904 - 730 pages
...control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the Legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable of so great a folly...It, the mere tenants at will of the Legislature." See also In re Dalton, 61 Kans. 257; State ex rel. v. Lake Koen Company, 63 Kans, 394; State ex rel... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 664 pages
...a wrong, sweep from existence all of the municipal corporations of the State, and the corporations could not prevent it. We know of no limitation on...it, the mere tenants at will of the Legislature." See also In re Dalton, 61 Kansas, 257; State ex rel. v. Lake Koen Co., 63 Kansas, 394; State ex rel.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 648 pages
...a wrong, sweep from existence all of the municipal corporations of the State, and the corporations could not prevent it. We know of no limitation on...it, the mere tenants at will of the Legislature." See also In re Dalton, 61 Kansas, 257; State ex rel. v. Lake Koen Co., 63 Kansas, 394; State ex rel.... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Labor - 1905 - 804 pages
...corporation could not prevent it. We know of no limitation upon this right, so far as the corporation themselves are concerned. They are, so to phrase it, the mere tenants at will of the Legislature." After referring to the possible motive of the Legislature in making the statute, the court continued:... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1911 - 724 pages
...and the corATKIN V. KANSAS. porations could not prevent it We know of no limitation on this right eo far as the corporations themselves are concerned....it, the mere tenants at will of the Legislature." See slso In re Dalton, 61 Kansas, 257; State ex rel. v. Lake Koen Co., 63 Kansas, 894; State ex rel.... | |
 | Arizona. Supreme Court - 1917 - 708 pages
...control. Unless there is some constitutional limitation on the right, the legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable of so great a folly...phrase it, the mere tenants at will of the legislature. ' ' ' Hence the matter of conflict is immaterial, and the question whether the right or power has been... | |
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