Case ID: la-ann_3/html/0698-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Edstis, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commercial Bank of Natchez v. Markham.
    Decision- in Scott v. Duke, ante p. 253, affirmed.
    The stat. of 1 June, 1846, whiGh declares :• “ That so much of articles 746 and- 747 of the Cods . of Practice as authorizes a creditor having obtained a judgment in another State of the 'Union or in a foreign country, to proceed by executory process on said judgment, he, and the same is hereby, repealed,” does not violate art. 119 of the constitution, which provides that, “ no law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title; but in such case the act revised, or section amended, shall be re-enacted and-puhlished at length.” Per Curiam : Art. 119 does not include, by its terms, the repeal of laws, or portions of them, and can only be thus extended by an implication of doubtful propriety.
    APPEAL from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, Strawbridge, J.
    
      Stockton and Steele, for the appellants.
    
      Grymes and Prentiss and Finney, 
      for the defendant and garnishee.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced , by

Edstis, C. J.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a decree of the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, quashing certain proceedings in garnishment. These proceedings were had by virtue of an order rendering certain judgments, ohtained in the State of Mississippi, executory, under article 746 of the Code of Practice.

In the case of Scott v. Duke, ante p. 253, we held that the law authorizing executory process on judgments obtained in another State of the Union, or in a foreign country, was repealed by the act of 1846. The process 'was considered as a matter of remedy, and as such within the control of the legislature. [See also Kilgore v. Planters Bank, ante p. 693. R.] That case was determined on a full examination of the effect of the repeal upon causes pending, and we held that, after the repeal, there was no warrant for any further proceedings in executory process issued on judgments of that class. There was nothing decided in that case as to rights acquired by virtue of proceedings previous to the repeal, that matter not being before us. There is nothing in this case which distinguishes it from that of Scott v. Duke.

It has been contended in argument that, though the-legislature may have intended to repeal parts of articles 746 and 747 of the Code of Practice by the law of 1846, yet the law itself does not meet the requisition of the 119th article of the constitution, and is consequently a nullity. That article provides, that no law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title; but, in such case, the act revised or section amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length. We cannot declare that an act repealing certain defined portions of an article of one of our Codes is in conflict with this article. By its terms it does notin. elude the repeal of laws or portions of them, and can only be thus extended by an implication of doubtful propriety. This is not a case in which a court is permitted to exercise the power of declaring an act of the legislature to be unconstitutional. Judgment affirmed*