City of Dallas v. Taystee Baking Co.

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

On September 20, 1941, the City of Dallas, a municipal corporation, acting by its legally authorized officers, filed in the corporation court of said city complaints against the Taystee Baking Company, a corporation engaged in baking and selling bread in Dallas. The charge was selling on the market loaves of bread not within the legal tolerance or variance prescribed by the statute of the State and the ordinance of the city. The statute and ordinance provide that the variance in the weight of a loaf of bread shall not- exceed one ounce per pound over or under the legal…