Laforge v. State Board of Health

The following opinion was filed February 4, 1941:

Fairchild, J.

The statute relating to the rendering business on which appellants rely in their application for a license is an exercise by the state of a self-protecting right under the police power, and it regulates transportation over its highways of dead animal matter likely to spread disease as well as the construction and operation of the plants in which the matter is to be rendered. Within its own borders the state may efficiently inspect and regulate the business, but the police power of one state cannot be extended so as to control acts…