Edward Douglass White, Jones v. Brim — Opinion of the Court
“ The statute, being general in its application, embracing all persons under substantially like circumstances, and not being an arbitrary exercise of power, does not deny to the defendant the equal protection of the laws. ”
Edward Douglass White, Jones v. Brim — Opinion of the Court
“ Plaintiff in error claims that the law in question deprives the class of persons mentioned in it of their property without due process of law, and denies to them the equal protection of the laws, and that, consequently, its provisions contravene that portion of the first section of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which provides that 'no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law ”
Edward Douglass White, Jones v. Brim — Opinion of the Court
“ The confusion of thought involved in the reasoning of the plaintiff in error not only results from failing to consider that the statute simply creates a conclusive presumption of negligence from a particular state of facts, but also is caused by treating the law as one imposing a liability on the owners of herds when liability does not also exist as to others. ”
