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Antoni Vs. Greenhow

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 05, 1883

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  15. U.S. 769 (1883) U.S. Supreme Court Antoni v. Greenhow
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  16. U.S. 769 (1883) Antoni v. Greenhow
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  17. inconsistent therewith. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia decided at its November Term, 1872, in Antoni v. Wright
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  18. act of 1872, so far as it conflicted with this contract, was void. The authority of this case was recognized in Wise v. Rogers
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  19. Gratt. 169, and in Clarke v. Tyler
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  20. This Page 107 U. S. 771 decision of Antoni v. Wright
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  21. The same questions were decided in the same way here at the October term, 1880, in Greenhow v. Hartman
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  22. would lie according to the principles of the common law if necessary to prevent a failure of justice, and in Antoni v. Wright
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  23. remedy to compel a collector to accept the coupons in question when offered in payment of taxes. The case of Wise v. Rogers
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  24. legislative power of the states over the obligation of contracts was suggested by Chief Justice Marshall in Sturges v. Crowninshield
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  25. Wheat. 122, and has been uniformly acted on since. Mason v. Haile
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  26. Von Hoffman v. Quincy
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  27. U. S. 278 . As was very properly said by Mr. Justice Swayne in Von Hoffman v. Quincy
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  28. the question becomes, therefore, one of reasonableness, and of that the legislature is primarily the judge. Jackson v. Lamphire
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  29. in a remedy which has been made, we must presume it did exist, and that the law was passed on that account. Munn v. Illinois
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  30. coupons, but the remedy after refusal. We might have satisfied ourselves by a reference to the case of Tennessee v. Sneed
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  31. of the present case the language of THE CHIEF JUSTICE in expressing the opinion of the Court in the cases of the State v. Jumel
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  32. or more states, her debts shall be ratably apportioned among them. See authorities upon this subject in Hartman v. Greenhow
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  33. coupons which the state could not afterwards impair. As this Court, with only one dissenting member, said in Hartman v. Greenhow
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  34. direct conflict with that of March 30, 1871, its validity was assailed, and came before the Court of Appeals in Antoni v. Wright
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  35. and binding upon the state. By the decision of the state court in that case, and of this Court in Hartman v. Greenhow
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  36. Elmendorf v. Carmichael
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  37. upon herself the position of an ordinary civil corporation, or of an individual, and is bound accordingly. Davis v. Gray
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  38. Hall v. Wisconsin
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  39. To the same purport and still more emphatic is the language Page 107 U. S. 796 of the Court in Walker v. Whitehead
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  40. should absolutely and in terms repudiate the coupon as a contract at all. It is practical repudiation. In Bronson v. Kinzie
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  41. U. S. 1 How. 311, 42 U. S. 317 . In Planters' Bank v. Sharp
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  42. U. S. 6 How. 301, 47 U. S. 327 . In Murray v. Charleston
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  43. U. S. 96 U.S. 432, 96 U. S. 448 . In Edwards v. Kearney
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  44. Id., 96 U. S. 608 . And only two terms ago, in Louisiana v. New
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  45. The question discussed by Mr. Justice Swayne in Walker v. Whitehead
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  46. is given as a substitute is so embarrassed with conditions as to destroy the value of the contract. In Louisiana v. Pilsbury
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  47. without an adequate and efficacious remedy for their enforcement. I understand them also to reaffirm Bronson v. Kinzie
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  48. any doubt upon or in any degree to qualify the decision, either Page 107 U. S. 803 in Providence Bank v. Billings
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  49. or in Green v. Biddle
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  50. or in Woodruff v. Trapnall
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