Granger Laws and Railroad Commissions
The rise of substantive due process
The battle over substantive due process begins in the Southwest Johnson v. Goodyear Mining Co. – California, 1899 (59 P. 304)
| ![]() Southern Pacific Railroad terminal, Oakland, California (circa 1870) - courtesy Library of Congress
![]() Old mine, Sierra County, California - courtesy National Historic Building Survey and Library of Congress
“The corporation and the laborer are prohibited from making any contract whereby wages are to become due for a longer period than one month as a period of employment, or by which the laborer is to be paid in anything except money or negotiable checks. The working man of intelligence is treated as an imbecile.” - Justice _, in Johnson |
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