...in Action," University of Pennsylvania Law Rerieu' and American LJW Regitter, 7-4 (May 1926), 669. to draw the line in all cases so as to decide what is a public use in this sense and what is not."92 By declining to hand down a firm rule specifying the exact boundaries...

...the power to tax, the court declare it to be " beyond cavil that there can be no lawful tax.-which is not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy...is a public purpose in this sense, and what is not. It is undoubtedly the duty of the legislature, which imposes or authorizes municipalities to impose...

...up private fottunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and called taxation. . . . We have established, we think beyond...cavil that there can be no lawful tax which is not levied for a public purpose. 35 Topeka could therefore default on its bonds, for its taxes had never...

...manufacturer of iron bridges to set up shop in the city. Speaking for the Court, Justice Miller stated that: "We have established, we think, beyond cavil that...lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose." Ibid., p. 664. Since the Court found that "there is no difficulty in holding that this is not such...

...order to be valid, must be exercised for a public purpose. The first concluded with the statement : " We have established, we think beyond cavil that there can be no lawful tax which is not levied for a public purpose." ' But they went on to say that, in determining what is a public object,...