U.S. Supreme Court METROPOLITAN CAS. INS. CO. OF NEW YORK v. BROWNELL, 294 U.S. 580 (1935)

[Page 294 U.S. 580, 587]

Auto Exchange Corporation, 262 U.S. 544, 43 S.Ct. 636; Hanover Fire Ins. Co. v. Carr (Hanover Fire Insurance Company v. Harding), 272 U.S. 494, 47 S.Ct. 179, 49 A.L.R. 713; and Guinn v. United States, 238 U.S. 347, 363, 35 S.Ct. 926, L.R.A.1916A, 1124; require that the Indiana statute in question, as construed and applied in this case, be held void as contravening the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that the judgment under review be reversed accordingly. Footnotes

[Footnote *] Rehearing denied 55 S.Ct. 647, 79 L.Ed. --.

Footnote 1 Erb v. Morasch, 177 U.S. 584, 586, 20 S.Ct. 819; Stebbins v. Riley, 268 U.S. 137, 143, 45 S.Ct. 424, 44 A.L.R. 1454; Middleton v. Texas Power & Light Co., 249 U.S. 152, 158, 39 S.Ct. 227; Swiss Oil Corp. v. Shanks, 273 U.S. 407, 413, 414 S., 47 S. Ct. 393; Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. v. Board of Improvement of Paving District No. 16, 274 U.S. 387, 391, 392 S., 47 S.Ct. 595; State of Ohio ex rel. Clarke v. Deckebach, , 47 S.Ct. 630; Silver v. Silver, 280 U.S. 117, 123, 50 S.Ct. 57, 65 A.L.R. 939; O'Gorman & Young, Inc., v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 282 U.S. 251, 257, 258 S., 51 S.Ct. 130, 72 A.L. R. 1163; Railway Express Agency v. Com. of Virginia, 282 U.S. 440, 444, 51 S.Ct. 201, 72 A.L.R. 102; State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Jackson, , 537-541, 51 S.Ct. 540, 73 A.L.R. 1464; Hardware Dealers Mut. Fire Insurance Company v. Glidden Co., 284 U.S. 151, 158, 52 S.Ct. 69; Boston & Maine R.R. v. Armburg, 285 U.S. 234, 240, 52 S.Ct. 336; Lawrence v. State Tax Commission, 286 U.S. 276, 283, 52 S.Ct. 556, 87 A.L.R. 374; Concordia Fire Insurance Co. v. Illinois, 292 U.S. 535, 547, 548 S., 54 S.Ct. 830.