Dodge v. Mission Tp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This is an action on 359 coupons cut from 22 township bonds issued by the township of Mission, in Shawnee county, in the state of Kansas, under an act of the legislature of that state passed on March 1, 1889, and entitled “An act to encourage the erection of mills and the manufacture of sugar and syrup out of sorghum cane, and authorizing townships and cities of the second and third class to…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This is an action on 359 coupons cut from 22 township bonds issued by the township of Mission, in Shawnee county, in the state of Kansas, under an act of the legislature of that state passed on March 1, 1889, and entitled “An act to encourage the erection of mills and the manufacture of sugar and syrup out of sorghum cane, and authorizing townships and cities of the second and third class to subscribe for stock in sugar factories, and to vote bonds therefor.” This act by its terms empowered any township or city…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
It is a fundamental principle of a republican form of government that no man shall be involuntarily deprived of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The prohibition of such a deprivation by the states is found in the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. But it lies deeper, and limits and conditions every grant of legislative, executive, or judicial authority. The proposition was announced in the early history of the republic, and it has been constantly affirmed. The supreme court said in Calder v. Bull, 3 Dall. 386, 388, 1 L. Ed. 648, 649:
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