Court Opinion

ID: 9418318
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:20:56.120095+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:00.846497
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice McKenna and Mm Justice Pitney
dissent upon the ground that Chapter 355 of the Laws of 1907 of the State of New York, creating the Long Sault Development Company and conferring upon it certain rights and franchises, when accepted, as it was, by the company, constituted a contract between the State and the company; that the repealing act and accompanying legislation passed in . 1913 (Chaps. 452 and 453) had the effect 'of impairing the obligation of that contract, in contravention of § 10 of Article I of the Federal Constitution; and that effect was given to the latter legislation by the decision Under review.