Ervin v. Conn

If nothing else appeared, the conception of the Federal Government as creating a species of property, intended to have a situs within the State, and investing it with qualities and incidents of succession at variance with the State laws of descent and distribution, would make a disturbing picture. It would, indeed, be cause for challenge if the Congress undertook to legislate on the subject by general regulation of property rights within the field of State control. But there is no such general invasion of State governmental power or function involved in the controversy submitted to the Court.…