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CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY CO. v. MILLER

114 U.S. 176 (1885)

CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. MILLER, Auditor.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 6, 1885.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.G. Robertson and Mr. George F. Edmunds for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Cornelius C. Watts, Attorney-General of West Virginia, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

This writ of error brings into review a final decree of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of West Virginia dismissing the bill of complaint filed by the plaintiff in error, the error assigned being that that court gave effect to a statute of the State alleged to be void, on the ground that it impaired the obligation of a contract between the plaintiff in error and the State of West Virginia.

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