Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF INDIANA. The title, preamble and first section of a law enacted March 4, 1893, by the State of Indiana, (Acts of 1893, c. 36, p. 300,) are as follows: “ An act concerning the sinking, safety, maintenance, use and operation of natural gas and oil wells, prescribing penalties and declaring an emergency.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF INDIANA. The title, preamble and first section of a law enacted March 4, 1893, by the State of Indiana, (Acts of 1893, c. 36, p. 300,) are as follows: “ An act concerning the sinking, safety, maintenance, use and operation of natural gas and oil wells, prescribing penalties and declaring an emergency. “Whereas, great danger to life, and injury to persons and property is liable to result from the improper, unsafe and negligent sinking, maintenance, use and operation of natural gas and oil wells; therefore, “ Section 1. Be it enacted by the General…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The assignments of error all in substance are resolvable into one proposition; which is, that the enforcement of the provisions of the Indiana statute as against the plaintiff in error,' constituted a taking of private property without adequate compensation, and therefore amounted to a denial of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
When this proposition is analyzed by the light of the facts Avhich are admitted on the record, it becomes apparent that the foundation upon which it must rest involves two contentions which are in conflict one with the other; in other words,…
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