Stovall v. Gartrell’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““This principle obviously has no application here. The wars are over, and the armies participating therein were raised and supported by the federal government. The status of the veteran is not that of a soldier in the United States Army, but a Kentucky citizen the legislature and the people deem it proper to recognize because of his past service. This grant of compensation constitutes a recognition of a moral obligation to reimburse Kentuckians for losses suffered by reason of military service. It has nothing whatever to do with raising and supporting armies, (our emphasis) “Amicus Curiae also cites People v. Westchester County National Bank, 231 N.Y. 465 , 132 N.E. 241 , 15 A.L.R. 1344 . As we read that case the New York court did not determine that the attempt of the state to give a soldiers’ bonus was an invasion of federal power, but decided that the state has no legal obligation to a veteran. “We do not understand that amicus curiae is raising the question of whether or not the granting of a veterans’ bonus by the legislature or the people is a legitimate public purpose. Since the problem is presented, however, by his reliance upon the Westchester Bank case, just cited, and since it is • important to our determination of the true nature of the proposal submitted to the people (to be hereafter discussed) we will pass upon it. “The problem was apparently settled by the decision of this Court in Bosworth v. Harp, 154 Ky. 559 , 157 S.W. 1084 , 45 L.R.A.,N.S., 692. Though tha”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grise v. Combs

2. ““Are you in favor of the issuance and sale of bonds to pay a bonus to veterans of the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II and the Korean Conflict, which bonds shall be paid from the proceeds of a tax levied upon retail sales ?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watkins v. State Property & Buildings Commission