People Ex Rel. Schurz v. Cook
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This writ of error was brought to, review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, adopting and entering a decision of the Court of Appeals of said State in pursuance of a remittitur therefrom, on the ground' that it gave effect to and enforced a law of the State, which, in violation of the Constitution of the United States, impairs the obligation of a contract.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This writ of error was brought to, review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, adopting and entering a decision of the Court of Appeals of said State in pursuance of a remittitur therefrom, on the ground' that it gave effect to and enforced a law of the State, which, in violation of the Constitution of the United States, impairs the obligation of a contract. Whether there was a contract and whether its obligation bad been impaired, as claimed by plaintiffs in error, were questions which arose and were to be determined…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The present writ of error is prosecuted to review and reverse this judgment, on the ground that the decision of the Court of Appeals, in enforcing the provisions of the law of 1886 against the relators, plaintiffs in error, and requiring of them the payment of one-eighth of one per centum upon the amount of the ¡capital stock of the company sought to be incorporated, as a condition precedent to the filing of the certificate and becoming a body politic and corporate under the name of the Western .New York and Pennsylvania Railway Company of New York, impaired the obligation of a contract made…
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