MISSOURI RAILWAY CO. v. MACKEY

No. 218.

127 U.S. 205 (1888)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MACKEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 23, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dillon, with whom was Mr. Winslow S. Pierce, Jr., on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Thomas P. Fenlon, for defendant in error. Mr. John C. Tomlinson was with him on the brief.


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

At the trial, and in the Supreme Court of the State, it was contended by the defendant, and the contention is renewed here, that the law of Kansas of 1874 is in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, in that it deprives the company of its property without due process of law, and denies to it the equal protection of the laws.

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