Bluthenthal v. I. Trager & Co.
Decision Date | 23 January 1902 |
Citation | 31 So. 622,131 Ala. 639 |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Parties | BLUTHENTHAL ET AL. v. I. TRAGER & CO. ET AL. |
Appeal from city court of Gadsden; John H. Disque, Judge.
Suit by I. Trager & Co. and others against Bluthenthal & Bickert to have a mortgage decreed to be an assignment. From a decree in favor of the plaintiffs, the defendants appeal. Affirmed.
Burnett & Culli, for appellants.
The bill in this case was filed by appellees under section 2158 of the Code of 1896, which relates to general assignments. It is contended by counsel for appellants that this statute was declared unconstitutional in the case of Supply Co. v Lucas, 119 Ala. 202, 24 So. 416, and therefore void. In that case it was said by this court, having then under consideration the act of February 16, 1897 (Acts 1896-97, pp 1089, 1090), and which was there declared void as being offensive to section 2 of article 4 of the constitution It does not follow from this that section 2158 as it now stands is invalid in whole, but, on the contrary, whatever part of that section as now contained in the published volume of the Code that was in the Code at the time of the act of adoption is preserved, and is still operative, by force of the act of adoption, and only such parts, or so much of it, as was introduced by the commissioner is invalid and inoperative. The manuscript volume of the Code, on file in the office of the secretary of state, which was adopted by the act of February 16, 1897, contains the act of ...
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