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- Title: Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company v. Texas.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 26, 1900
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 90 KB
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The claim on the part of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below, is that the state court decided the case under the provisions of the state constitution only, and without reference to the act of 1870, which the plaintiff in error (the railroad company) alleges to be an impairment of the contract set up by it in the pleadings. Although the state court held that the payments in dispute were made by means of state treasury warrants issued to circulate as money, which were therefore void as in violation of the constitution of the State, and that the delivery of the warrants by the company amounted to no payment whatever, the question still remains whether by that decision any effect was given to the act of 1870. We think the judgment of the state court did give effect to that act.