Raymondv v. Chicago Union Traction Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. The appellants, who were defendants below, have appealed ' from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The case is one of several argued together, the facts in regard to which are substantially the same.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. The appellants, who were defendants below, have appealed ' from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The case is one of several argued together, the facts in regard to which are substantially the same. It was brought to enjoin the appellants from taking any further proceedings towards the collection of certain taxes, assessed against the appellee upon an assessment alleged to be in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. -Justice Peckham,
after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the courtl
The claim that the action of the state board of equalization . in making the assessment under consideration was the action of the State, and if carried out would violate the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, by taking property of the appellee without due process of law, and by failing to give it the equal protection of the laws, constitutes' a Federal question beyond all controversy. How that question should be decided is another matter which we…
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