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TULLIS v. LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD

No. 71.

175 U.S. 348 (1899)

20 S.Ct. 136

44 L.Ed. 192

TULLIS v. LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1899.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.H.H. Miller for Lake Erie & Western Railroad. Mr. J.B. Elam and Mr. J.B. Cockrum were on his brief.

Mr. Addison C. Harris, for Tullis, submitted on his brief.

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

The contention is that the act referred to is in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment because it denies the equal protection of the laws to the corporations to which it is applicable.

In Pittsburgh &c. Railroad Company v. Montgomery, 152 Indiana, 1, the statute in question was held valid as to railroad companies, and it was also held...

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