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CLEVELAND &C. RAILWAY CO. v. BACKUS

No. 908.

154 U.S. 439 (1894)

14 S.Ct. 1122

38 L.Ed. 1041

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY, v. BACKUS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John T. Dye for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Alonzo Greene Smith, Attorney General of the State of Indiana, and Mr. William A. Ketcham for defendant in error. Mr. Albert J. Beveridge and Mr. John W. Kern were with them on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is similar to the two just decided, in that it was a suit brought by this plaintiff in the same court, challenging an assessment of its railroad property for the same year, by the same board, with the same result both in the trial and Supreme Court of the State. Hence it is useless to reconsider the questions decided in those cases as to the constitutionality of the act itself, or those which depend...

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