Allen v. Riley
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE StTPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. Frances J. Riley, the • defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, recovered a judgment against plaintiffs in error, defendants below, for $1,250, in the District Court of Brown County, in the State of Kansas, which judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, and the defendants below have brought the case here by writ of error.
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ERROR TO THE StTPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. Frances J. Riley, the • defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, recovered a judgment against plaintiffs in error, defendants below, for $1,250, in the District Court of Brown County, in the State of Kansas, which judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, and the defendants below have brought the case here by writ of error. The suit was commenced by the filing of a petition by defendant in error, plaintiff below, in a District Court of Kansas, March 17, 1902, to recover the value of certain lands alleged to have been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The sole question for our determination in this case is con*352cerning the constitutionality of the Kansas act. The opinion of the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas is reported in 71 Kansas, 378, and 80 Pac. Rep. 952.
The judgment herein is founded upon Mason v. McLeod, 57 Kansas, 105, which case has been followed by that of Pinney v. First National Bank of Concordia, 68 Kansas, 223.
The defendants insist that the act in question violates article one, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States, and the Federal statute passed in pursuance thereof, being Rev. Stat. § 4898; 3 Comp. Stat.…
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