Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE JUSTICE COURT, PRECINCT NO. 6, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of a statute of the State of Texas allowing an attorney’s fee in certain actions based on claims for small amounts against railway companies, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE JUSTICE COURT, PRECINCT NO. 6, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of a statute of the State of Texas allowing an attorney’s fee in certain actions based on claims for small amounts against railway companies, are stated in the opinion. The act of the legislature in question is void because in conflict with that provision of § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which guarantees the equal protection of the laws. The act violates that provision of § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment which prohibits the taking of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
In this case the plaintiff below (now defendant in error) recovered á judgment for three dollars and fifty cents damages for loss of certain freight that was shipped from St. Louis, Missouri, consigned to plaintiff at Como, Texas, and delivered by the initial carrier to defendant for transportation to destination; the loss having occurred on defendant’s line in Texas. The judgment includes an attorney’s fee of ten dollars, allowed by virtue of the local statute approved March 13, 1909, Laws p. 93, Texas Rev. Civ. Stat. 1911, Arts. 2178 and 2179, which was under consideration in Missouri,…
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