Sligh v. Kirkwood
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP FLORIDA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution of a statute of Florida prohibiting the sale or shipment of citrus fruits which are immature or otherwise unfit for consumption, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP FLORIDA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution of a statute of Florida prohibiting the sale or shipment of citrus fruits which are immature or otherwise unfit for consumption, are stated in the opinion. Section 1 of Chapter 6236, in sb far as the same applies to interstate shipments, is in conflict with and contravenes § 8, Art. I, of the Federal Constitution, which provides that Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
A statute of the State of Florida undertakes to make it unlawful for anyone to sell, offer for sale, ship, or deliver for shipment, any citrus fruits which are immature or otherwise unfit for consumption.
Plaintiff in error, S. J. Sligh, was charged by information containing three counts in the Criminal Court of Record in Orange County, Florida, with violation of this statute. One of the counts charged that Sligh delivered to an agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, a common carrier, for shipment to Winecoff & Adams, Birmingham, Alabama, one car of oranges, which were citrus fruits,…
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