EX PARTE JACKSON


96 U.S. 727 (1877)

EX PARTE JACKSON.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.J. Dittenhoefer and Mr. Louis F. Post for the petitioner.

Mr. Assistant-Attorney-General Smith, contra.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The power vested in Congress "to establish post-offices and post-roads" has been practically construed, since the foundation of the government, to authorize not merely the designation of the routes over which the mail shall be carried, and the offices where letters and other documents shall be received to be distributed or forwarded, but the carriage...

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