Toledo, Logansport & Burlington Railway Co. v. Nordyke

27 Ind. 95

Opinion

Frazer, J.

In Hingle v. The State, 24 Ind. 28, we defined a special statute, in the sense of the 22d and 23d sections . of article four of the constitution of the State, to be “ such as at common law the courts would not notice, unless it were pleaded and proved, like any other fact.” The chief question before us now, is whether so much of the act of March 4, 1863, (Acts 1863, p. 25,) as provides for the enforcement of judgments rendered under the act, is in conflict with the sections of the constitution referred to. This question can only be determined in the negative, if we adhere to the doctrine of Hingle v. The State. That doctrine is not questioned in the argument, and inasmuch as the subject then received very close consideration, with the aid of a careful and exhaustive argument against the validity of the statute then under consideration, we do not now re-examine it.

E. Walker, J. E. McDonald, A. L. Roadie and D. Sheeks, for appellant. •

In the present ease, the proceeding was to enforce the judgment of a justice of the peace. There was no revenue stamp upon the justices certificate to his transcript. We think that none was required by the act of Congress. Prather v. Pritchard, 26 Ind. 65.

The judgment is affirmed, with costs.