The act has no tendency to produce equality; and it is of such a character that there is no reasonable presumption that substantial equality will result from its application.

—a discrimination against the railroad company was established to be so palpable and arbitrary as to amount to the denial of equal protection of the law.

And only where there is manifest and unreasonable discrimination in fixing the benefits which the several parcels will receive can the legislative determination be said to contravene the equal protection clause of that Amendment.

And the cause is properly here on writ of error, under § 237 of the Judicial Code as amended September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726.

Contrary to the District's view, the fact that the levee district covers less than the entire state of Illinois is immaterial.

Gast, Houck, Louisville and Branson were reviewed and the following declarations were made (p 661): "Obviously, the railroad companies have not been treated like individual owners, and we think the discrimination so palpable and arbitrary as to amount to a denial of the equal protection of the law. Benefits from local improvements must be estimated upon contiguous …

—so-called assessments for public improvements laid upon particular property owners are ordinarily constitutional only if based on benefits received by them.

—finding tax discrimination in a local drainage district's assessment, and affirming the state's power to "create taxing districts to meet the expense of local improvements" (internal quotation marks and citations omitted

The act of 1932 being valid on the surface, the question remains whether it has been so applied or interpreted in the adoption of this plan as to bring out defects that were lurking underneath.

—assessing railroad at arbitrary sum per mile of track while other property is assessed on the basis of area and proximity to highway violates equal protection clause of 14th Amendment

[CITATION] Public Utilities Commission of California v. Public Utilities Commission of …