Ballard v. Hunter
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP ARKANSAS. This writ of error is prosecuted to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Arkansas sustaining the validity of a sale of the lands of plaintiffs in error for levee taxes.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP ARKANSAS. This writ of error is prosecuted to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Arkansas sustaining the validity of a sale of the lands of plaintiffs in error for levee taxes. The State of Arkansas, by an act.of its legislature passed February 15, 1893, created eight counties, or portions of eight counties, which constituted .what was known as “St. Francis Basin,” a levee district, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining levees against the waters of the Mississippi River, and incorporated a board of directors, giving it power to…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McKenna,
after stating the case as. above, delivered the opinion of the court.
The assignments of error present the contention that plaintiffs in error have been deprived of their property without due process of law. One of them urges, in addition, the clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibit a State from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, and from depriving any person within her jurisdiction of the equal protection of the laws. Plaintiffs in error invoke those provisions against the statutes of…
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