Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Scheffer v. Justus

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided January 17, 1902No. Nos. 12,896-(213)PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Writ of habeas corpus issued from the supreme court on Relation of Alfred Scheffer, directed to Philip C. Justus as sheriff of Ramsey county.

1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.

The relator was arrested under a criminal warrant issued out of the municipal court of the city of St. Paul upon the complaint of one William Harvey, which charged that the relator, as the agent of Scheffer & Rossum, a copartnership, by whom he had been em-' ployed, and which employment he had voluntarily left, did wrongfully, wilfully, and unlawfully seek to prevent and hinder the complainant from obtaining work- with another firm.

The imprisonment is claimed to be unlawful for the following *280reasons: That Laws 1895, c. 174, is unconstitutional, because it contravenes the provisions of section…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Cameron v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
  2. Reimer v. NewelSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
  3. Simard v. SullivanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1898

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Mathison v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
  2. Joyce v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
  3. State v. MoilenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1918
  4. State ex rel. Young v. Standard Oil Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1910
  5. Dick v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1915

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