Adams v. City of Milwaukee
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP. THE STATE OP WISCONSIN. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process and equal- protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, are stated in the opinion. The ordinance is class legislation and a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP. THE STATE OP WISCONSIN. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the due process and equal- protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, are stated in the opinion. The ordinance is class legislation and a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. When adopted and when it went into effect, there were no regulations in any way controlling the keeping of cows within the City of Milwaukee and the sale of milk from such cows except Ordinance No. 43, and the rules and regulations which the Health Commissioner had formulated under its authority some, time…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
delivered' the opinion of the. court.
Error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin sustaining the validity of an ordinance of the common council of the City of Milwaukee regulating the sale of milk.
The ordinance provides that no milk drawn from cows outside of the city shall be brought into the city, contained in cans, bottles or packages, unless they be marked with a legible stamp, tag br impression bearing the name and address of the owner of the cows and unless such owner shall, within one year from the passage of the ordinance, file in the office of the Commissioner of…
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