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TOWNSEND v. YEOMANS

No. 781.

301 U.S. 441 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 842

81 L.Ed. 1210

TOWNSEND ET AL. v. YEOMANS, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GEORGIA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 24, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wm. Hart Sibley and Robert C. Alston, with whom Mr. E.K. Wilcox was on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. O.H. Dukes, Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, and L.W. Branch, with whom Mr. M.J. Yeomans, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by tobacco warehousemen to restrain the enforcement of a statute of Georgia, approved March 28, 1935, fixing maximum charges for handling and selling leaf tobacco. Ga. L. 1935, pp. 476-8.

The statute was assailed as an arbitrary and capricious exercise of state power, repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, and as placing a direct burden upon interstate...

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