Smith v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OP CRIMINAL APPEALS OP THE STATE OP TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the statute of Texas of 1909 prescribing qualifications for conductors on railroad trains, are stated in the opinion. The Texas statute deprives defendant, without due process of law, of liberty to engage in a lawful occupation for which he was shown to be well fitted and denies to him the equal protection of the laws.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OP CRIMINAL APPEALS OP THE STATE OP TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of the statute of Texas of 1909 prescribing qualifications for conductors on railroad trains, are stated in the opinion. The Texas statute deprives defendant, without due process of law, of liberty to engage in a lawful occupation for which he was shown to be well fitted and denies to him the equal protection of the laws. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 369; Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U. S. 31; Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co., 184 U. S. 559; Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 53; Adair v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
delivered tEe opinion of the court.
W. W. Smith, the plaintiff in error, a man 47 years of age, had spent 21 years in the railroad business. He had never been a brakeman or a conductor, but for six years he served as fireman, for three years ran as extra engineer on a freight train, for eight years was engineer on a mixed train, hauling freight and passengers, and for four years had been engineer on a passenger train of the Texas & Gulf Railway. On July 22, 1910, he acted as conductor of a freight train running between two Texas towns on that road. There is no claim in the brief for the State…
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