Keyser v. Rice
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County, in Equity. On the 6th of March, 1876, the appellant filed in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, sitting as a Court of equity, his bill, asking for relief by way of injunction, to restrain the appellee from the further prosecution, in Piedmont, W. Va., of an attachment, by which the latter sought to recover from him the sum of $31.25 due bim as wages in Cumberland, Maryland, by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County, in Equity. On the 6th of March, 1876, the appellant filed in the Circuit Court for Allegany County, sitting as a Court of equity, his bill, asking for relief by way of injunction, to restrain the appellee from the further prosecution, in Piedmont, W. Va., of an attachment, by which the latter sought to recover from him the sum of $31.25 due bim as wages in Cumberland, Maryland, by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. On April 8th, 1876, the answer of Defendant was filed, denying the material allegations of the bill, and on the 12th August…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
(Robinson, J., dissenting.)
The second section of the 4th Article of the Constitution of the United States, although construed in-several cases, in the State and Federal Courts, has never (until very recently) as far as we are aware, been considered a restriction on the Legislatures of the several States, in regard to contracts between their own citizens, or the remedies proper for the enforcement of those contracts.
The Courts have been extremely cautious in defining the meaning of a clause couched in such general terms. (See Conner vs. Elliott, 18 How., 593.) In the recent case of Ward vs.…
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