From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 16:19:26 MDT
Forrest Bishop wrote:
>
> > Forrest Bishop wrote:
> > > This is a legal "theory" that apparently started with the 1898 US Bankruptcy Act
I found the cite.
Navigate to http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/CaseSummary.html
and search for 1886. You should find two interesting ones:
Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad 118 US 394 (1886): Corporations
are persons under the 14th amendment. That's the one I was thinking of. So
you can push your "starting date" back a bit.
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v Illinois 118 US 557 (1886): dicta
included that corporations have no obligation to the public good, along the
way to deciding that Illinois couldn't penalize the Wabash line for charging
more for an intrastate shorter trip just because it had the only stop in
Gilman, IL.
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