FAYERWEATHER v. RITCH

Nos. 157, 158.

195 U.S. 276 (1904)

FAYERWEATHER v. RITCH. REYNOLDS v. RITCH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 28, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Roger M. Sherman for appellant in No. 157 and Mr. William Blaikie for appellant in No. 158. Mr. Charles Andrews submitted a brief for appellants in Nos. 157 and 158.

Mr. Elihu Root, with whom Mr. James L. Bishop, Mr. William Forse Scott, Mr. William Ford Upson, Mr. John McL. Nash, Mr. C.N. Bovee, Mr. Thomas H. Hubbard, Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, Mr. Horace Russell, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Alfred W. Kiddle, Mr. Seth Sprague Terry, Mr. George G. Reynolds, Mr. Henry B. Twombly, Mr. Haley Fiske and Mr. Henry Stoddard were on the brief, for various colleges, appellees.

Mr. John E. Parsons for appellees, Bulkley and Vaughan, and Mr. C.N. Bovce for appellees, Ritch and Marietta College, submitted a separate brief.

Mr. Thomas H. Hubbard submitted a separate brief for appellee, President and Trustees of Bowdoin College.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Our jurisdiction of this direct appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court is invoked on the ground that the case involves the application of the Constitution of the United States.

The contention is that by Article V of the amendments to the Federal Constitution no person can "be deprived of life, liberty, or property...

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