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1 County of San Mateo, Plaintiff in Error vs. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant in Error: Argument of Mr. George F. Edmunds, of Counsel for Defendant in Error 18--

handle is hein.trials/abaq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: *uppumf 0it5urt of t~c W10itc tatcs. No. 1063. THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, VS. THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, DEFENDANT IN ERROR. ARGUMENT OF MR. GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, OF COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT IN ERROR. Mr. EDMUNDS said: In the little I have to say, may it please your honors, I shall not follow the particular order of my brief, but in the short time I have allude to some of the leading topics drawn in question, as they may happen to occur. And I begin where my learned brother (Attorney General Hart) left off, as freshest in the minds of the Court, as to the scope and effect of this Illinois case of Ducat, and the other case referred to about the foreign corporations. Your honors have held (and I think you can still hold, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, if that really means anything at all, which seems to begin to be doubtful in the minds of counsel,) that a State has a right to regulate the terms upon which it will per- mit a foreign corporation to carry on its functions of insur- ing, or whatever it may be, in a State; and that as a ground of permitting it to do so, it may say that it shall pay all its

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