Western Turf Assn. v. Greenberg

Citations

• 204 U.S. 359
• 27 S. Ct. 384
• 51 L. Ed. 520
• 1907 U.S. LEXIS 1465

Syllabus

<p>Where defendant corporation in the court below questions the constitutionality of a state statute as an abridgment of its rights and immunities and as depriving it of its property without- due process of law in • viola- - tion of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the judgment sustains the validity of the statute, this court has jurisdiction to review the judgment on' writ of error under § 709, Rev. Slat:</p> <p>A corporation is not deemed a citizen within the clause of the Constitution of the 'United States protecting the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States from 'being abridged or impaired by the law of a State; and the liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment against deprivation without due process of law is that of natural, not artificial, . persons.</p> <p>A State may in the exercise 'of its police power'regulate the admission of persons to placés of amusement, and, upon terms of equal and exact justice, provide .that persons holding tickets thereto- shall be .admitted if not under the influence of liquor, boisterous, or of lewd character, and such a statute does not deprive the owners of such places of their property without due process of law; so held-as to California statute.</p>