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RAILROAD CO. v. HECHT

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95 U.S. 168 (1877)

24 L.Ed. 423

RAILROAD COMPANY, v. HECHT.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 19, 1877.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. U.M. Rose for the plaintiff in error cited Oliver v. Memphis Railroad Co., 30 Ark. 129; St. Louis Railroad Co. v. Loftin, id. 693; Bronson v. Kinzie, 1 How. 311; Commonwealth v. United States Bank, 2 Ashm. (Pa.) 349; Aurora Turnpike Co. v. Holthouse, 7 Ind. 59; Powell v. Sammons, 31 Ala. N.S. 552; Cairo & Fulton Railroad Co. v. Turner, 31 Ark. 494.

No counsel appeared for the defendants in error.

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

The single question presented by this record is whether a statute which prescribes a mode of service of judicial process upon the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, different from that provided for in its charter, is void because it impairs the obligation of a contract. The regulation of the forms of administering justice by the courts is an incident of sovereignty. The surrender of this power is never to...

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