Cincinnati Street Railway Co. v. Horstman

Citations

• 72 Ohio St. (N.S.) 93

Syllabus

<p>Street railway company — Power to lease or purchase — Consolidation of companies — Sections 2505a and 2505b, Revised Statutes — Acts of May 1, 1891, and April 22, 1896, are valid— Laws of a general or special nature — Law of corporations— Constitutional law.</p> <p>1. The act of the general assembly entitled “An act to amend and supplement sections 2505a and 25056 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as enacted May 1, 1891, and amended April 18, 1892,” passed April 22, 1896 (92 O. L., 277), is constitutional, it being a law of a general nature which operates uniformly throughout the state and upon every individual corporation of the classes therein defined.</p> <p>2. A temporary act may be either general or special; and an act of a general nature which operates uniformly throughout the state and upon every individual corporation of the classes therein, defined, but which is by its terms limited in operation to a specified period of time, is a temporary general statute.</p>