Horace Gray

“ In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States, which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, not only must the obligation of a contract have been impaired, but it must have been impaired by some act of the legislative power of the state, and not by a decision of its judicial department only. ”

“ When the parties have been fully heard in the regular course of judicial proceedings, an erroneous decision of a state court does not deprive the unsuccessful party of his property without due process of law, within the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States. ”

“ Supervisors, 16 Wall. 678, 690, Douglass v. Pike Co., 101 U.S. 677, 686, Anderson v. Santa Anna Tp., 116 U.S. 356, 361, 6 Sup. Ct. 413, and other cases cited in Louisiana v. Pilsbury, 105 U.S. 278, 295. ”