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The record
- Level
- Legal authority
- Authority
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. O'Connor, 223 U.S. 280 (1912)
- Issued
- 1912-02-19 Feb. 19, 1912
- In force
- Feb. 19, 1912 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Character
- case
Notes
'when, as is common, the State has a more summary remedy, such as distress, and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he cannot prevent, courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognize the implied duress under which payment is made' (at 285-86); a party facing forfeiture of its right to do business 'is entitled to assert his supposed right on reasonably equal terms' (at 286).