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Missouri v. Lewis U.S. 22 (1880)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0430 and id is 1 raw text is: MissouRi v. LEwis. A. I don't think we did. I had in my mind distinctly what to do, and we stuck to it until we got it done. Q. You used your own discretion entirely? A. I intended to. I intended to keep that line plumb up, if I could, and not to let it get into the new post-office build- ing, and not get over into this part of the city. These witnesses are unimpeached and uncontradicted, and what they say is conclusive. It is unnecessary to refer partic- ularly to the rest of the testimony. Nothing is to be found in it in conflict with the parts we have quoted. It affords no ground for a plausible conjecture that the facts were otherwise. The plaintiff not only failed to prove what he claimed, but his own testimony counter-proved it and established the negative. The proposition was vital to his case. Judgment affirmed. MissouRI v. LEwis. 1. The provision in the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States, which prohibits a State from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws, contemplates the protection of persons, and classes of persons, against unjust discriminations by a State; it does not relate to territorial or municipal arrangements made for differ- ent portions of a State. 2. A State is not thereby prohibited from prescribing the jurisdiction of its sev- eral courts, either as to their territorial limits, or the subject-matter, amount, or finality of their respective judgments or decrees. 3. Each State has full power to make for municipal purposes political subdivi- sions of its territory, and regulate their local government, including the constitution of courts, and the extent of their jurisdiction. 4. A State may establish one system of law in one portion of its territory, and another system in another, provided always that it neither encroaches upon the proper jurisdiction of the United States, nor abridges the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, nor deprives any person of his rights without due process of law, nor denies to any person within its juris- diction the equal protection of the laws in the same district. 5. By the Constitution and laws of Missouri, the Saint Louis Court of Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction in certain cases of all appeals from the circuit courts in Saint Louis and some adjoining counties; the Supreme Court has jurisdiction of appeals in like cases from the circuit courts of the remaining counties of the State. Held, that this adjustment of appellate jurisdiction is not forbidden by any thing contained in the said amendment. [Sup. at.

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