In fact, it would seem, from the character of many of the cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of this court the abstract opinions of every... Supreme Court Reporter - Page 112by United States. Supreme Court - 1886Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 782 pages
...Miller in Davidson v. New Orleans, 96 US 97, 104, the Fourteenth Amendment cannot be availed of " as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...abstract opinions of every unsuccessful litigant in the state court of the justice of the decision against him, and of the merits of the legislation on... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...merits of the legislation on which such a decision may Ьэ founded. If, therefore, it were possible to define what it is for a state to deprive a person... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 778 pages
...this provision, as found in the Fourteenth Amendment." It seems, as he states, to be looked upon " as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...after the lapse of eight years, it may be repeated with an expression of increased surprise at the continued misconception of the purpose of the provision.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 782 pages
...this provision, as found in the Fourteenth Amendment." It seems, as he states, to be looked upon " as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...after the lapse of eight years, it may be repeated with an expression of increased surprise at the continued misconception of the purpose of the provision.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 782 pages
...provision, as found in the Fourteenth Amendment." It seems, as he states, to be looked upon -• as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...after the lapse of eight years, , it may be repeated with an expression of increased surprise at the continued misconception of the purpose of the provision.... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1886 - 718 pages
...this provision, as found in the Fourteenth Amendment." It seems, as he states, to be looked upon " as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...court, of the justice of the decision against him, ana of the merits of the legislation on which such a decision may be founded." This language was used... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 428 pages
...cases before us, and the arguments made in them, that the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of...legislation on which such a decision may be founded." 96 US 104. It was said in rendering judgment in Walker v. Sauvinet, supra, where the right to a trial... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 892 pages
...the clause under consideration is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test, of the decisions of this Court, the abstract opinions of every unsuccessful...legislation on which such a decision may be founded. If, therefore, it wore possible to define what it is for a State to deprive a person of life, liberty,... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1889 - 308 pages
...is looked upon as a means of bringing to the test of the decision of this court the abstract opinion of every unsuccessful litigant in a State court of the justice of the decision against him." And Judge Miller thinks that there " must be some strange misconception of the meaning of the provision."... | |
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