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LIGGETT CO. v. BALDRIDGE

No. 34.

278 U.S. 105 (1928)

49 S.Ct. 57

73 L.Ed. 204

LOUIS K. LIGGETT COMPANY v. BALDRIDGE, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Owen J. Roberts and Roy M. Sterne, with whom Mr. George C. Chandler was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Paul C. Wagner, Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, with whom Mr. Thomas J. Baldridge, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Sol M. Stroock, as amicus curiae, filed a brief on behalf of the Whelan Drug Company, by special leave of Court.

Messrs. Charles H. Sachs and Louis Caplan, as amici curiae, filed a brief on behalf of the May Drug Company, by special leave of Court.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal brings here for consideration a challenge to the constitutionality of an act of the Pennsylvania legislature approved May 13, 1927, Penna. Stats., Supp. 1928, § 9377a-1, 9377a-2, a copy of which will be found in the margin.* The act provides that every pharmacy or drug store shall be owned only by a licensed pharmacist, and, in the case of corporations, associations...

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