BARNEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 159.

193 U.S. 430 (1904)

BARNEY v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 21, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Maxwell Evarts and Mr. Arthur H. Masten for appellants in this case and in No. 173.

Mr. Edward M. Shepard for the appellees, members of the Rapid Transit Board, and Mr. Platt A. Brown, with whom Mr. DeLancey Nicoll was on the brief, for appellee McDonald.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court was invoked upon the ground that by the tunnel construction sought to be enjoined, complainant was deprived of his property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. But that amendment prohibits deprivation by a State, and here the bill alleged that what was...

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