Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after stating the foregoing facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
The motion to dismiss the writ of error must be denied. The case involves a Federal question under the contract clause of the Constitution.
The claim on the part of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below, is that the state court decided the case under the provisions of the state constitution only, and without reference to the act of 1870, which the plaintiff in...
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