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RAILROAD CO. v. ALABAMA

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101 U.S. 832 (1880)

25 L.Ed. 973

RAILROAD COMPANY, v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 29, 1880.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Samuel F. Rice and Mr. Thomas G. Jones for the plaintiff in error, and submitted on brief by Mr. John T. Morgan for the defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case, like that of Railroad Company v. Tennessee (supra, p. 337), presents the question of the constitutionality of a law taking away the right to sue a State on its contracts. The Constitution and laws bearing on the question are much the same in Alabama as in Tennessee; but in Alabama it was provided "that if judgment should be rendered against the State, it was the duty of the...

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