Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Shannon

Citations

• 91 Miss. 476
• 44 So. 809

Syllabus

<p>1. Telegraph Company. Statutory penalty. Code 1892, § 4326. Statutes. Repeal. Act adopting Code 1906, § 13.</p> <p>Code 1892, § 4326, imposing a penalty on telegraph companies for unreasonable delay in delivering messages, was a general law and was repealed by § 13 of the act adopting the Code of 1906, providing that all laws of a general character not brought forward and embodied in the Code of 1906 should be repealed.</p> <p>2. Same. Repealed statute published as if re-enacted. Legislative journals. Enrolled bills.</p> <p>If a repealed act of the legislature be published in a compilation of statutes, the courts, taking judicial notice of the laws, will not enforce it, although the legislative journals, unsupported by the enrolled bill in the office of the secretary of state, recite its reenactment.</p>