Cincinnati Street Railway Co. v. Snell
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP OHIO. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Corporations are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP OHIO. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Corporations are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Smyth v. Ames, 169 U. S. 466, 522. Plaintiff in error is a domestic corporation and was, therefore, entitled in the court, where this suit was brought, to privileges equal to those of its adversary, touching the right to change of venue, unless at least the corporation was eliminated in tiiis regard from the category of natural persons through some rational and not arbitrary statutory classification. Blake v. McClung, 172…
1Opinion of the Court
Mk. Justice White
delivered the opinion .of the court.
Snell, the defendant in error, sued the railwajr company, the plaintiff in error, in the Common Pleas Court of Hamilton County, Ohio, to recover for alleged personal injuries. Availing of a section of the Ohio statutes, Snell moved that the cause be transferred for trial to the Court of Common Pleas, of an adjoining county, and reserved an exception to a denial of such request. The trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the railway company.
Error was prosecuted by Snell to the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, and the judgment being…
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