Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Little River Circuit Court; Jefferson T. Cowling,- Judge; 1. The act upon which the penalty and attorney’s fee are based is unconstitutional. Seetion 1, Fourteenth Amendment, U. S. Const.; Acts 1907, p. 144; 165 U. S. 169; 97 Ark. 100; 207 U. S. 73, cases cited at p. 77; 61 Pac. 307; 105 Fed. 31; 24 Am.
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Appeal from Little River Circuit Court; Jefferson T. Cowling,- Judge; 1. The act upon which the penalty and attorney’s fee are based is unconstitutional. Seetion 1, Fourteenth Amendment, U. S. Const.; Acts 1907, p. 144; 165 U. S. 169; 97 Ark. 100; 207 U. S. 73, cases cited at p. 77; 61 Pac. 307; 105 Fed. 31; 24 Am. Dec. 511; 47 L. R. A. 343; 49 Ark. 492; 38 S. E. (Ga.) 67; 70 Mich. 382; Id. 433; Id. 620;, 71 Mich. 35; 44 Pac. 149; 41 S. E. 240; 41 S. W. 684; 65 Ala. 193; 60 Miss. 641; 106 Ala. 501; 27 Col. 107. 2. On appeal from justice’s court to the circuit court, it is not permissible to…
1Opinion of the CourtFrauenthal, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment awarding to appellee double damages and attorney’s fees for a mare killed by one of appellant’s trains. The appellant seeks a reversal of the judgment for the reason that errors, as it claims, were committed by the lower court in the trial of the case, but principally upon the ground that the act of the Legislature approved February 27, 1907 (Acts of 1907, p. 144), under which the recovery for double damages and attorney’s fee was allowed, is unconstitutional and void. The suit was originally brought by appellee before a justice of the peace for the recovery…
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