Case Name: J. S. EMERY, Appellant, v. GEORGE W. REED, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1884-06-27
Citations: 65 Cal. 351
Docket Number: No. 8,776
Parties: J. S. EMERY, Appellant, v. GEORGE W. REED, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 351–352

Head Matter:
[No. 8,776.
In Bank
June 27, 1884.]
J. S. EMERY, Appellant, v. GEORGE W. REED, Respondent.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—CoNSTBUCTIOY BY LATE SUPBEME OOTTET.—Whei'6 the Supreme Court of the State, prior to the adoption of the new Constitution, passed upon the constitutionality of an act of the legislature, the construction will he accepted and followed by the present Supreme Court, without regard to its own views as to the correctness of that construction.
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County, and from an order refusing a new trial.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
A. A. Moore, A. C. Adams, and P. J. Van Loben Sels, for Appellant.
Cope & Boyd, J. M: Taylor, Lloyd Baldwin, and J. C. Martin, for Respondent.

Opinion:
The Court.
The constitutionality of the act entitled "an act to authorize the city of Oakland to construct a main sewer," approved March 23, 1874 (Stats. 1873-74, p. 530), was directly attacked in the case entitled Snyder v. Johnson, No. 6,016, and in that case this court, in the year 1878, held the act valid. We have frequently said that, with respect to laws passed under the late Constitution, the construction put upon them by the highest court in existence under it, would be accepted by us without regard to our own views in respect to the correctness or incorrectness of that construction.
Judgment and order affirmed.