Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell

290 U.S. 398 (1934)

HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION

v.

BLAISDELL ET AL.

No. 370.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued November 8, 9, 1933

Decided January 8, 1934

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF MINNESOTA.

Messrs. Alfred W. Bowen and Karl H. Covell for appellant.

Mr. Harry H. Peterson, Attorney General of Minnesota, and Mr. William S. Ervin, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. George T. Simpson was on the brief, for appellees.

Appellant contests the validity of Chapter 339 of the Laws of Minnesota of 1933, p. 514, approved April 18, 1933, called the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Law, as being…