Bullock v. Florida Ex Rel. Railroad Comm'n of Fla.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. The case is stated in the opinion. The judgment and writ of prohibition under review deprive the mortgagee Hood of his property without due process of law, and deny to him the equal protection of the law, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.
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CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. The case is stated in the opinion. The judgment and writ of prohibition under review deprive the mortgagee Hood of his property without due process of law, and deny to him the equal protection of the law, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. Brooks-Scanlon Co. v. Railroad Commission of Louisiana, 251 U. S. 396, 399. See also Munn v. Illinois, 94 U. S. 113, 116; Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Mobile & Ohio R. R. Co., 244 U. S. 388; Northern Pacific Ry. Co. v. North Dakota, 236 U. S. 585, 595; Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. v. West…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a proceeding by the relators seeking a prohibition-forbidding a State judge of a lower Court to confirm a sale of a railroad “for the purpose of and with the privilege on the part of the purchaser of dismantling the same” as authorized by a foreclosure decree. The trustee of the mortgage under foreclosure was made a party to the proceeding and demurred upon the ground that the prohibition would deprive him of his property without due process of law contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court of Florida granted the prohibition, 82…
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