Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. May

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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. May
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Syllabus

Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May, 194 U.S. 267 (1904), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that a Texas law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by penalizing only railroad companies for allowing certain weeds to mature and go to seed on their land.

836626Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. May — SyllabusOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Court Documents

United States Supreme Court

194 U.S. 267

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas  v.  May

 Argued: March 17, 1904. --- Decided: May 2, 1904

Messrs. James Hagerman, T. S. Miller, and J. M. Bryson for plaintiff in error.

No counsel for defendant in error.

Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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