Ingels v. Morf

This suit was brought by appellee in the District Court for Southern California, three judges sitting, to restrain appellants, state officers, from enforcing the provisions of the “Caravan” Act, Cal. Stat. 1935, c. 402, as a forbidden burden on interstate commerce, and as an infringement of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. From a decree granting the relief prayed, the case comes here on appeal under §§ 238 (3), 266, Judicial Code.

The challenged statute defines “caravaning” as the transportation, “from without the state, of any motor vehicle operated on…