State v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Ward, J., at December Special Term, 1910, of Pitt. The defendant stood indicted in tbe following bill: “The jurors for the State upon their oaths present, that The Southern Cotton Oil Company, a corporation, late of the county of Pitt, on tbe first day of April, 1909, witb force and arms, at and in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully and willfully sell and offer for sale to J. R. Bunting a quantity of cotton-seed meal in sacks, said sacks not being branded as is…
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Appeal from Ward, J., at December Special Term, 1910, of Pitt. The defendant stood indicted in tbe following bill: “The jurors for the State upon their oaths present, that The Southern Cotton Oil Company, a corporation, late of the county of Pitt, on tbe first day of April, 1909, witb force and arms, at and in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully and willfully sell and offer for sale to J. R. Bunting a quantity of cotton-seed meal in sacks, said sacks not being branded as is required by law and said sacks containing said meal having-tags attached to said sacks which did not contain and did…
1Opinion of the Court
Clare, C. J".
Revisal, 3945-3978, contains a careful and comprehensive scheme to protect ti.e public from the sale of worthless fertilizers and injurious foods. The most efficient method of insuring this protection is the requirement therein that the contents of each package must be shown by a label or tag. The requirement of a small tax and the certificate that it has been paid is simply incidental and to provide a means for executing the law by proper inspection and prosecution for violation of its terms. Indeed, in a case that went to the United States Supreme Court it was held that if this…
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