Campbell v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion, The act involved does not purport to regulate succession of estates. Estate of Cope, 191- Pa. St. If Re Magues’ Estate,' 77 Pac.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion, The act involved does not purport to regulate succession of estates. Estate of Cope, 191- Pa. St. If Re Magues’ Estate,' 77 Pac. Rep. 854; State ex.rel. v. Ferris, 53 Ohio St. 1. This case can be distinguished from the Magoun case, 170 U. S. 283, 303, and Billings v. Illinois, 188 U. S. 97, one of which upheld a classification on amount of property and the other on the character of the property. When a classification of persons inter sese is made, then all persons standing alike in the eyes of the law…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In 1893 a law was enacted in California, imposing a charge on collateral inheritances and on bequests and devises. California Stat. 1893, p. 193. The burdens which the law imposed were not laid upon inheritances, bequests or devises in favor of the father, mother, husband, wife, children, brother or sister of a decedent, or wife or widow of a son, or the husband of a daughter of the decedent, adopted children and certain public and charitable corporations. In the year 1899 the law of-1893 was appended.' The amendment caused the charge imposed by the prior act to become applicable in the case…
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