Disston v. Board of Trustees

Citations

• 75 Fla. 653
• 79 So. 295

Syllabus

<p>1. The provision in Article III, Section 16, of the Constitution in relation to what shall be 'expressed in the title of a bill is mandatory, and should be strictly construed in all cases within the mischiefs intended to be arrested.</p> <p>2. .A contract entered into for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of a void .enactment of the legislature, can not be the basis of a trust agreement. .</p> <p>3. The title “AN- ACT to Enlarge and 'Extend the Franchises bf 'St. Cloud Sugar.Belt Railway Company,” is not. sufficiently broad to carry a grant -of 3840 acres per mil®.of the public lands of the State, and there is nothing in this title to apprise the legislature and the people that the Act contained a land grant different from that provided for by the Act of 1879, |and such grant, not being within the subject -expressed in the title, is void.</p>