...is not obnoxious to the charge of a denial of equal protection ; hut the classification must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and cam never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. Two citations suffice to...

...forget, namely, that all distinctions, exceptions, exemptions and classifications in any law "must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed and never be made arbitrarily and without such basis." Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.,...

...different rules to the different classes was admitted, but it was said that the classification "must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis." It was also held that the...

...associations, in order to subserve public objecte. For this court has held that classification "must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. . . . But arbitrary selection...

...distinctions which do not furnish any proper basis for the attempted classification. That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and Just relation to the act in respect to wliich the classification Is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basis....

...associations In order to subserve public objects; for this court has held that classification 'must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable...to the act In respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis. * » » But arbitrary selection...

...consider, and it is entirely unnecessary to repeat here what we have said above or again refer speelflcally to those authorities. It is very earnestly contended...is the test, and by it the present question must be dete'rmlned. See the opinion of Mr. Justice Brewer in Gulf & SFR Co. v. Ellis, 165 US 150. 17 Sup....

...possible for the court to say there was a fair reason for the exemption, and that the classification rests upon some difference which bears a reasonable and...according to all the authorities, Is the test, and measured by such test, we think the statute in question is not invalid because of the exemptions allowed....

...individuals outside of the classes, these classifications must not be arbitrary or unreasonable, but must rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act In respect to which classi! flcatlon is proposed." What is the act with respect to which this law makes the classification...

...in the act of 1898 is obviously arbitrary, and was not made to rest, as we have above pointed out, upon some difference which bears a reasonable and Just relation to the act — the thing — in respect to which the classification is proposed. The statute was not passed in...