Stephens v. Anderson

Citations

• 75 Fla. 577

Syllabus

<p>Chapter 4513 Laws of 1895 which was an act to provide for the crejation of the city of Pensacola, and which contains the following provision: “Section 11. The Courts in this State shall take judicial cognizance of the ordinances of the city, and the printed copy officially published by the city may be read as evidence in any trial in which the same may be competent evidence without proof of the due passage and ¡ap^' proval of said ordinance. Until the publication of the ordL nance of the city, a certified copy from the Comptroller’s Office of an ordinance may be read with the same effect as, if it had been officially published,” merély requires the courts of this State to accept a certain medium of proof of the existence of the city’s ’ordinances and not to take judicial notice of the ultimate fact of the ordinances; existence.</p>