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ADAMS EXPRESS CO. v. KENTUCKY

No. 331.

206 U.S. 129 (1907)

27 S.Ct. 606

51 L.Ed. 987

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1907.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., and Mr. Edmund F. Trabue, with whom Mr. Joseph S. Graydon was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error, in this case and in No. 332 argued simultaneously herewith:1

Mr. Napoleon B. Hays, Attorney General of the State of Kentucky, with whom Mr. Charles H. Morris was on the brief, for defendant in error, in this case and in Nos. 332 and 583 argued simultaneously herewith:1

MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The testimony showed that the package, containing a gallon of whiskey, was shipped from Cincinnati, Ohio, to George Meece, at East Bernstadt, Kentucky. The transaction was therefore one of interstate commerce, and within the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. The Kentucky statute is obviously an attempt to regulate such interstate...

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