Snell v. Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE .STATE OF ILLINOIS. This case came before the court on error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE .STATE OF ILLINOIS. This case came before the court on error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. The record disclosed these facts: On December 21, 1888, the plaintiffs in error, as plaintiffs, filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Cook-County their* bill of complaint, seeking.to enjoin the defendants, their officers, agents, and servants, from removing, or attempting to remove, a certain toll-gate on Milwaukee Avenue, in the city of Chicago, and from interfering with the plaintiff’s collection of tolls thereat. The bill set…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
By this writ of error we are called upon to review the decision of the Supreme Court of the- State of Illinois, and it is insisted that that decision is in conflict with the clause' of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the national Constitution, which declares that “ no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law,” and of the tenth section of the-first article of that Constitution, which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligations of contracts.
It is the settled law of this court that .to give it jurisdiction of a…
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