Amendment, which prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime.
The significance of the decision is this--slavery has been outlawed by
our highest court, and one more legal barrier to the progress of the
black man has been removed.
The case of Loewe vs. Lawler, probably better known to the public as the
Danbury Hatters case, was decided by the Supreme Court in February,
1908, Chief Justice Fuller rendering the decision. The action was
brought originally in the United States Circuit Court for the District
of Connecticut and, after passing through the Circuit Court of Appeals,