Supreme Court of the United States March 29, 1880, 155 (Douglass v. County of Pike)

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United States · · · 29-03-1880

Mr. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

We are asked to reconsider our decision in

County of Cass

v.

Johnston

(95 U. S. 860), because since that case the Supreme Court of Missouri-, in State,

ex rel. Woodson,

v.

Brassfield

(67 Mo. 331), and

Webb

v.

La Fayette County

(id. 353), has held the Township Aid Act, which we sustained, to be unconstitutional.

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