Bown v. Walling , 27 S. Ct. 292 ( 1907 )

204 U.S. 320 (1907)

BOWN
v.
WALLING.

No. 81.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued January 10, 1907. Decided February 4, 1907. ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO.

Mr. S.M. Stockslager, with whom Mr. W.E. Borah, Mr. Frank T. Wyman and Mr. John C. Rice were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.^[1]

There was no appearance or brief filed for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought in the Probate Court in and for Elmore County, State of Idaho, for the sum of two hundred dollars' damages sustained by defendant in error by the violation by plaintiffs in error of sections 1210, 1211 of the Revised Statutes of Idaho. The amended complaint alleged that the offense was committed by plaintiffs in error by wrongfully and negligently permitting and allowing their sheep to graze within two miles of the dwelling house of defendant in error and upon the Government lands around his premises. The defense, set up by demurrer, was, as in Bacon v. Walker, ante, p. 311, that those sections were void under the due process and equality clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The trial court rendered judgment for the defendant in error, which was affirmed by the District Court for Elmore County and by the Supreme Court of the State. 9 Idaho, 740.

The case was argued with Bacon v. Walker et al., and on the authority of that case the judgment is

Affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER and MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM dissent.

NOTES

[1] For abstract of argument see ante, p. 312.