Coffee-Rich, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Health

This is a bill in equity for a declaratory decree regarding the applicability of G. L. c. 94, § 187 (as amended through St. 1948, c. 598, § 2), and § 191, to Coffee-Rich, a liquid vegetable product manufactured and sold by the plaintiff; and, inter alia, to enjoin the defendants from enforcing these statutory provisions against the plaintiff. The case was presented upon a statement of agreed facts plus certain exhibits to the single justice, who reserved and reported it “without decision for the determination of the full court.”

We herewith summarize the pertinent facts. At its principal…