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· 5/2/1904

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. May

Citations

  • 194 U.S. 267
  • 24 S. Ct. 638
  • 48 L. Ed. 971
  • 1904 U.S. LEXIS 853

Syllabus

<p>The law of Texas, chap. 117, of 1901, directed solely against railroad com- . panies and imposing a penalty for permitting Johnson grass or Russian thistle to go to seed upon their right of way, is not, shown so clearly to deny the companies equal protection of the laws as to-be held contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment.</p>

Judges: Holmes, Brown, Brewer, White, McKenna

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