The Supreme Court held that appeals do lie from judgments of the Court of Claims to this Court and that the appropriation provision does not bar payment of a judgment when the appeal is timely. The motion to dismiss was denied.
Supreme Court of the United States, 1886
Published opinions from 1886. The case name opens the case page.
1886 opinions
The Court held that the San Francisco laundry ordinances vested supervisors with arbitrary power to grant or withhold permission and that their administration operated as an unjust racial discrimination.
The Court held that compelling claimants in a forfeiture proceeding to produce private papers for use against them, while treating nonproduction as a confession, violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The Supreme Court affirmed the Illinois Supreme Court’s judgment, holding that the challenged sections of the Illinois Military Code are constitutional and do not violate the federal Constitution.