Legal Opinion
Demorest v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 17, 1944No. Nos. 52, 227PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
Appellants in these two cases challenge the constitutionality of Subdivision 2 of § 17-c of the Personal Property Law of the State of New York, approved April 13, 1940.1 *38Because of retroactivity it is said to offend the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution by taking for benefit of income beneficiaries property to which the appellants as beneficiaries of principal *39claim vested rights. It is asserted, also, to deny equal protection of the laws.
The facts in No. 52 are these: Henry West died in 1934. His will, so far as concerns us, left a residuary estate in…
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