Prescott v. Erwin

How courts have described this case

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• striking down legislation that regulated surplus farm equipment and products, and allowed certain counties to eliminate the position of Jury Commissioner
• rejecting the proposed subjects “amendments to the county code” or “powers of county commissioners” as (continued…
• rejecting the government’s unifying subject framed as “powers of county commissioners”
• rejecting “powers of county commissioners” as too broad a subject
• provisions of statute allowing for sale of surplus farm (continued...
• “The addition of a completely unrelated legislative operation to the bill under the auspices of ‘powers of county commissioners’ could only have survived the instant single subject challenge ‘if the point of view [were] carried back far enough’ to eviscerate the rule.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).