...not a law, according as the truth of the fact may be, and not according to the shifting circumstanced es, he shall be liable to be punished summarily, as...neglecting or refusing, without reasonable cause, to о In that case the invalidity of the law • grew out of the faot'that the journals of the • senate...

...according to the shifting circumstances of the parties. It would be an Intolerable state of affairs If a document purporting to be an act of the Legislature...settled and determined by the courts and Judges.' Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 US 260, 24 L. Ed. 154." The opinion In the case of Rushton v. Lelander,...

...legislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in another case and for p.nother party; a law to-day, and not a law to-morrow; a law...doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case. It would be a very unseemly state of things, after the courts of Illinois have determined that a pretended...

...Liquidation r. McComb, 2 Otto, 541. g 46. The question whether a certaiu pretended act is a law or not is a judicial question, to be settled and determined by the courts and judges, and there can be no such thing as a person being estopped to deny the invalidity of any such act. Town...

...according to the shifting circumstances of the parties. It would be an intolerable state of affairs if a document purporting to be an act of the Legislature...settled and determined by the courts and judges." South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 US 260; Wilkes County v. Coler, 180 US 506; Rogers v. State, 72 Ark. 565....

...an act of thelegislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in auother case and for another party; a law to-day, and not...The doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in this case": Ottowa v. Perkins, 94 IT. S, a;,). It must also appear that the statute under which bondshave...

...Canal Co. v. Baltimore &c. KR Co., 4 Gill & J. 1, G3 (1832). But whether a statute "be a law or riot a law, is a judicial question, to be settled and determined by the courts and judges. . . . When once it became the settled construction of the Constitution of Illinois that no act can...

...of the legislature could thus be a law in one case and for one party, and not a law in another case for another party ; a law to-day, and not a law to-morrow...doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case. It would be a very unseemly state of things, after the courts of Illinois have deter' mined that a...

...one party, and not a law in another case for another party ; a law to-day, and not a law to-morrovv ; a law in one place, and not a law in another in the...doctrine of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case. It would be a very unseemly state of things, after the courts of Illinois have determined that a pretended...

...the want of power in the legislative department. In South Ottawa v. Perkiiw, 94 US 267, this court said : " There can be no estoppel in the way of ascertaining...of estoppel is totally inadmissible in the case." In that case the invalidity of the law grew out of the fact Opinion of the Conrt. that the journals...