MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court. 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...
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