Otis v. Parker
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an action in three counts, for money had and received, for money paid and promised to be repaid, and for margins paid to the defendants as stock brokers on contracts to buy and sell mining stocks, respectively. ' The answers to the first two counts are general denials and other matters now immaterial. The answer, to the third count, beside a general denial, sets up that the count is based upon a provision in article IV, section 26, of the constitution of California, and that that provision is contrary to the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United…
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