Abie State Bank v. Bryan

Mk. Chief Justice Hughes

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in December, 1928, in the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, by the Abie State Bank on its own behalf and that of seyeral hundred other banks, all chartered under the laws of Nebraska, to enjoin the defendants from collecting special assessments under the Bank Guaranty Law of that State. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the statute authorizing the levy of such special assessments, upon the ground that their collection constituted the taking of the plaintiffs’ property without due…