Marvin v. Trout
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP OHIO. The plaintiff in error in these cases seeks to review the judgments of the Supreme Court of Ohio, affirming judgments Recovered against him by the defendant in error in one of the Circuit Courts of Ohio. The two eases involve the same question, which relates to the validity of the sections of the statute of the State of Ohio in regard to gambling, known as sections 4270, 4273 and 4275 of the Revised Statutes of that State.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP OHIO. The plaintiff in error in these cases seeks to review the judgments of the Supreme Court of Ohio, affirming judgments Recovered against him by the defendant in error in one of the Circuit Courts of Ohio. The two eases involve the same question, which relates to the validity of the sections of the statute of the State of Ohio in regard to gambling, known as sections 4270, 4273 and 4275 of the Revised Statutes of that State. The sections are set forth in the margin.1 The defendant in error commenced these actions in the Court of Common Pleas of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The plaintiff in error seeks to reverse the judgments herein, based on the gamings statute of Ohio, because, as he insists, that statute is unconstitutional on several different grounds: First, , because it is (as he avers) an unconstitutional extension of the police power of the State, resulting in the taking of the property of the plaintiff in error for the benefit of the defendant in error, or, in other words, it results in the taking of the property of the plaintiff in error without his consent for a private purpose, and that it is an invasion of his private right of property, in…
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