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PENNOYER v. McCONNAUGHY

No. 1280.

140 U.S. 1 (1891)

11 S.Ct. 699

35 L.Ed. 363

PENNOYER, v. McCONNAUGHY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 20, 1891.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lewis L. McArthur and Mr. H.H. Northup for appellants.

Mr. C.A. Dolph and Mr. C.R. Bellinger for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of the complainant below was, that the act of 1887, under which the defendants below assumed to act, in the matter of the cancellation of his certificates of sale, was in violation of section 10, article I, of the Constitution of the United States, in that it impaired the obligation of the contract made between Owen and the State for the sale of the lands; that...

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