COVINGTON AND CINCINNATI ELEVATED RAILROAD AND TRANSFER AND BRIDGE COMPANY
v.
KENTUCKY

U.S. | 1894-05-26
No. 1043
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, Mr. Justice Field, Mr. Justice Gray, and Mr. Justice White concurred in the judgment of reversal, for -the like reasons as'in the'case of Covington Bridge v. Kentucky, ante, 204, 223.
154 U.S. 224 Supreme Court of the United States (1894) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 38 L. Ed. 970 · 14 S. Ct. 1094 · 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2230 · SCDB 1893-280
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Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice- Brown

Mr. Justice-Brown delivered the opinion of the court.

This case differs from the last only in the fact that the plaintiff in error was not incorporated until 1886, and subsequently to a general law of the State declaring that all charters and grants of or to corporations shall be subject to amendment or repeal at the will of the legislature. Conceding that these words became a part of its charter, and hence that no contract was impaired by the legislation of 1890, such legislation is still open to the objection found to exist in the former case, that it is m conflict with the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky is, therefore,

Reversed, and the case remanded to that court for further proceedings.

Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, Mr. Justice Field, Mr. Justice Gray, and Mr. Justice White concurred in the judgment of reversal, for -the like reasons as'in the'case of Covington Bridge v. Kentucky, ante, 204, 223.

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