The People Ex Rel. the City of Rochester, Appellants v. Martin Briggs, Respondents; the City of…

Summary

The Court of Appeals affirmed the lower courts' judgments, holding that the 1872 act amending the several acts relating to the city of Rochester validly expressed a single subject—the municipal corporation—and that provisions not expressly mentioned in the title but germane to that subject are constitutionally permissible. Consequently, the act and the defendants' authority as commissioners of public works were upheld.