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Tracy v. Ginzberg

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1907No. 204PublishedCited by 39 opinions

ERROR TO THE SUFREME JUDICIAL típURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. This suit was instituted in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by the plaintiff in error, a.citizen of New York, against the defendant in error, a citizen of Massachusetts, individually and as trustee to H. C. Long & Company, composed of H. C. Long and Frank-A. Sanderson.

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ERROR TO THE SUFREME JUDICIAL típURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. This suit was instituted in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by the plaintiff in error, a.citizen of New York, against the defendant in error, a citizen of Massachusetts, individually and as trustee to H. C. Long & Company, composed of H. C. Long and Frank-A. Sanderson. The case made by the bill of complaint is as follows: On the twenty-third of December, 1902, the plaintiff sold to Long and Sanderson the. personal property used in carrying on hotel business at a certain place in Boston, and assigned- to them-the…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan

The plaintiff insists that the action of the police commissioners deprived him of property' without due process of law.. The answer to this contention is that the expectation called a right, or property was of the board’s creation and therefore subject to the limitations which the board imposed.

The plaintiff also insists that by the judgment of the Su-_ preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts he has been deprived of his property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This proposition is without merit. Within the meaning of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Den Ex Dem. Murray v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1856
  2. Somerville's Executors v. HamiltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1819

3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Worcester County Trust Co. v. RileySupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  2. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. v. Wisconsin Ex Rel. City of MilwaukeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
  3. American Railway Express Co. v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  4. Emmons v. SmittCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1945
  5. Liebeskind v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1955

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