TRACY v. GINZBERG

No. 204.

205 U.S. 170 (1907)

27 S.Ct. 461

51 L.Ed. 755

TRACY v. GINZBERG.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 18, 1907.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.J. Jaquith, with whom Mr. Thomas J. Barry was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Alfred W. Putnam, with whom Mr. William B. Sullivan was on the brief, for defendant in error.


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

The plaintiff insists that the action of the police commissioners deprived him of property without due process of law. The answer to this contention is that the expectation called a right or property was of the board's creation and therefore subject to the limitations which the board imposed.

The plaintiff also insists that...

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