Harvey Payne, Inc. v. Slate Co.

. Wilkins, C.J.

The plaintiff and the defendant are licensed wholesalers of cigarettes under GK L. c. 64C, in serted by St. 1945, c. 547, § 1, and are “in competition with each other and a large number of other wholesalers within the Commonwealth.” This bill in equity under GL L. c. 231A, inserted by St. 1945, c. 582, § 1, is brought for a declaratory decree as to the construction of certain provisions of Gr. L. e. 64C, as amended, prescribing the minimum price at which cigarettes may be sold at wholesale. The case was heard on agreed facts. The judge entered a decree declaring that in…