Head v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE ' OF NEW Hampshire. This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment'of the Supreme Court of the State of New Hampshire against the plaintiff in error, üpon a petition filed. by the defendant in error (a corporation established by the laws of New Hamsphire for the manufacture of cotton/-woolen, iron and other materials) for the assessment of damages for the flowing of his land by its mill-dam At Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River,…
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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE ' OF NEW Hampshire. This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment'of the Supreme Court of the State of New Hampshire against the plaintiff in error, üpon a petition filed. by the defendant in error (a corporation established by the laws of New Hamsphire for the manufacture of cotton/-woolen, iron and other materials) for the assessment of damages for the flowing of his land by its mill-dam At Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimack River, under the general mill act of that State of 1868, ch. 20, which is copied in the margin.* In the petition filed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Geay
He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The position that the plaintiff in error has been denied the equal protection of the laws was not insisted upon at the argument. The single question presented for decision is whether he has been deprived of his property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. It is only as bearing upon that question, that this court, upon a w rit of error to a State court, has jurisdiction to consider whether the statute conforms to the Constitution of the State.
The charter of the…
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