N. & W. R. R. v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 88 Va. 95
• 13 S.E. 340
• 1892 Va. LEXIS 1

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitution—Test—Effect of statute.—Whatever the language, the constitutionality of a statute is determined by its natural and reasonable effect.</p> <p>2. Idem—Interstate Sunday trains— Statutes forbidding interstate freight trains to run on a Sunday are hy their necessary operation, whatever their professed object, a regulation of or an obstruction to interstate commerce.</p> <p>3. Idem—Void statutes.—Code, 1887, ?, 8891, as to Sunday trains, is inconsistent with United States Constitution, article 1, § 8, giving Congress power to regulate interstate commerce, and void as to trains running between different states.</p>