COX v. TEXAS

No. 266, 267.

202 U.S. 446 (1906)

COX v. TEXAS. COX v. THOMPSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.C. McReynolds, with whom were Mr. F.E. Albright, Mr. E.C. Orrick, Mr. J.C. Terrell, Jr. and Mr. Dewey Langford, on a separate brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Charles K. Bell, Mr. R.V. Davidson, Attorney General of Texas, and Mr. Claude Pollard, for defendants in error, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are two suits upon a statutory bond executed by the plaintiffs in error as principal and sureties. There were verdicts and judgments against the plaintiffs in error, whereupon motions were made for new trials, setting up that the act under which the bond was given was contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...

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