One side's closing arguments in this case ended by referring to Caesar's assassination, ending with the words, "Et tu quoque, mi fili!"
One side's closing arguments in this case ended by referring to Caesar's assassination, ending with the words, "Et tu quoque, mi fili!" Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to William Plumer in support of his view in this case, saying that overturning the state's decision would make "the earth belong to the dead, but not the living." Justice Duvall was the sole dissenter in this case, which saw the defendants argue that Reverend Wheelock had the power to appoint a successor and have administrative powers vested in trustees. However, it was decreed that the character of civil institutions grow out of the matter in which they are formed in the decision by John Marshall, who cried after hearing Daniel Webster's arguments on behalf of his alma mater. FTP, name this 1819 Supreme Court case which ruled that legislation could not interfere with private contracts.
One side's closing arguments in this case ended by referring to Caesar's assassination, ending with the words, "Et tu quoque, mi fili!"
{Dartmouth} College {v. Woodward}