DOUGLASS v. COUNTY OF PIKE


101 U.S. 677 (____)

DOUGLASS v. COUNTY OF PIKE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John H. Overall and Mr. Frederick N. Judson for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. George F. Edmunds and Mr. Thomas J.C. Fagg for the defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

We are asked to reconsider our decision in County of Cass v. Johnston (95 U.S. 360), because since that case the Supreme Court of Missouri, in State, ex rel. Woodson, v. Brassfield (67 Mo. 331), and Webb v. La Fayette County (id. 353), has held the Township Aid Act, which we sustained, to be unconstitutional. The question presented, as we view it, is not so much whether these...

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