Melville Fuller

“ By the constitution of Pennsylvania it has always been declared that all men 'have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness'; and also 'that all courts shall be open, and every man, for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by the due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.' Const. ”

“ The record in this case discloses no attempt to question the validity of the particular statute, in the state courts, as in contravention of the federal constitution, unless in the points requested to be given in the trial court, and the refusal to give them; for even if it could be held that such question was raised on the application for reargument, nearly a year after the judgment of the common pleas was affirmed by the supreme court, the suggestion came too late. Texas & P. R. Co. v. Southern Pac. Co., 137 U.S. 48, 11 Sup. Ct. 10 ”