Legal Opinion

Continental Baking Co. v. Woodring

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 23, 1932No. 677PublishedCited by 186 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes

This is an appeal from a final decree of the District Court, composed of three judges as required by statute, which dismissed, on motion, the bill of complaint in a suit brought to restrain the enforcement of the Motor Vehicle Act of Kansas. Laws of 1931, c. 236; Continental Baking Co. v. Woodring, 55 F. (2d) 347.

Plaintiffs are “private motor carriers of property,” operating bakeries in Kansas and other States and making deliveries to their customers by their own trucks. They contend that the statute, by reason of the obligations it imposes, and of its classifications, violates the due…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Hendrick v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  2. Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Comm'n of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. Smith v. CahoonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  4. Kane v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  5. Sprout v. South BendSupreme Court of the United States · 1928

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3Cited by186 opinions

  1. Bell v. BursonSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Ex Parte PoreskySupreme Court of the United States · 1933
  3. Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdorySupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  4. Shavers v. Attorney GeneralMichigan Supreme Court · 1978
  5. Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939

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