National Cotton Oil Co. v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS IN AND FOR THE THIRD SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This suit was brought under the Anti-Trust Acts of the State of Texas,, to forfeit the license of the National Cotton Oil Company to do business in the State of Texas, for violating those acts. The defense is that the acts are repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment of' the Constitution of the United States.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS IN AND FOR THE THIRD SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This suit was brought under the Anti-Trust Acts of the State of Texas,, to forfeit the license of the National Cotton Oil Company to do business in the State of Texas, for violating those acts. The defense is that the acts are repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment of' the Constitution of the United States. The suit was instituted by the Attorney General of the State and the District Attorney of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, and the petition alleged the following facts: The National…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The charges made against the statutes of Texas are that they deny the oil company the equal protection of the law and take its property without due process of law. The answer to the first depends upon the effect of the statutes. The answer to the second involves their validity and broader considerations. We will deal with it first.
The specification in the demurrer of wherein the statutes deprive the oil company of its property without due process of law is indefinite and peculiar. It may be different from an attack on the validity of the statutes, but counsel have treated it as tantamount to…
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