(DOWNLOAD) "Sands v. Manistee River Improvement Company." by Supreme Court of the United States ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Sands v. Manistee River Improvement Company.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 14, 1887
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
Description
The plaintiff in error, the defendant below, misapprehends the purport of the provision that no State shall deprive one of property without due process of law, when he considers the exaction of tolls under a statute for the use of an improved waterway as a deprivation of property within its meaning. There is no taking of property from him by such exaction within the prohibition, any more than there is a taking of property from a traveller, in requiring him to pay for his lodgings in a public inn. There is in such a transaction only an exchange of money for its supposed equivalent. The tolls exacted from the defendant are merely compensation for benefits