Rapp v. Venable
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court for Grant County before Frank W*. Parker, Associate Justice. Laws of 1905, chapter 115, section 2, is unconstitutional. Organic Act, secs. 7 and 17; R. S. of U. S., sec. 1851; 10 Current Law 418; Zanone v. Mound City, 103 111. 552; State ex reí. Galle v. N. O., 113 La. 371, 36 So. 999; Allgeyer v. State of La., 165 U. S. 579; in re Jacobs, 98 N. Y. Supp. 98. Laws of 1905, chapter 115, section 2, creates a monopoly.
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Appeal from the District Court for Grant County before Frank W*. Parker, Associate Justice. Laws of 1905, chapter 115, section 2, is unconstitutional. Organic Act, secs. 7 and 17; R. S. of U. S., sec. 1851; 10 Current Law 418; Zanone v. Mound City, 103 111. 552; State ex reí. Galle v. N. O., 113 La. 371, 36 So. 999; Allgeyer v. State of La., 165 U. S. 579; in re Jacobs, 98 N. Y. Supp. 98. Laws of 1905, chapter 115, section 2, creates a monopoly. Tugman v. City of Chicago, 78 111. 405; Moore v. City of Danville, 1908, 232 111. 307, 83 N. E. 845; State ex reí. Galle v. N. O., 1904, 1131 La.…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION' OF THE COURT.
McFIE, J.
The assignments of error, though several in number, raise but one question for the consideration of this court, and that is the unconstitutionality of the act of the Territorial Legislature above referred to.
The court below having upheld the act of the Legislature, its decision is attacked as erroneous for two reasons. First, the act creates a monopoly and is therefore void under section 1 ’ of the 14th amendment to the Gonstitution of tlie United States; and second, because it is in violation of chapter 818 of the Acts of Congress vf 1886, 24 U. S. Statutes at…
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