JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy, and THE STATE AS A PARTY LITIGANT BY ROBERT DORSEY WATKINS, PH. D. BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS 162 Sec-45 no PREFACE This study is the outgrowth of a series of lectures on Political Theory by Professor W. W. Willoughby, and on Constitutional and International Law by President Goodnow, to both of whom grateful acknowledgement is made for their assistance and inspiration. If the author has been rather free at times in his criticisms of the decisions of the various courts, this is not from any lack of respect for or failure to appreciate the weight due the opinions of those august bodies. But for his inability always to agree with the courts, the author offers no apologies if his criticism is correct, no apology is needed; if unjustified, no amount of self-deprecation will add one iota to the validity of his judgment. Special acknowledgement is made to Mr. Andrew H. Mettee, Librarian of the Baltimore Bar, for his courtesy in extending the privileges of the Bar Library to the author. Without this assistance the labor in the preparation of this work would have been considerably increased. R. D. W. 107328 CONTENTS Preface... |