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SUTTON v. NEW JERSEY

Nos. 189, 190.

244 U.S. 258 (1917)

SUTTON v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. MIHM v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank Bergen for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. John Bentley for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases were argued together. In each the New Jersey statute (P.L. 1912, p. 235,1) requiring street railway companies to grant free transportation to police officers while engaged in the performance of their public duties, is assailed as invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment. In each a prosecution for assault and battery was brought...

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