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PITTSBURGH &C. RAILWAY CO. v. BACKUS

No. 899.

154 U.S. 421 (1894)

PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. BACKUS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Butler (with whom were Mr. S.O. Pickens, Mr. Alpheus H. Snow, and Mr. John M. Butler, Jr., on the brief,) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Alonzo Greene Smith, Attorney General of the State of Indiana, and Mr. William A. Ketcham for defendant in error. Mr. John W. Kern and Mr. Albert J. Beveridge were with them on the brief.

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

The decision of the Supreme Court of the State removes from this case all questions of conflict between the act and the constitution of the State, and the only matter remaining for our consideration is whether there is in the act as administered any trespass upon rights which the Federal Constitution secures to the plaintiff. Notwithstanding the elaborate attack made both in brief and...

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