Bowman v. Virginia State Entomologist
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah-county, in a proceeding under the cedar rust law, ordering the destruction of certain' cedar trees.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
The following questions raised by the assignments of error will be disposed of in their order as stated below:
[1] 1. Is the act approved March 4, 1914 (Acts 1914, p. 49, et seq.), commonly called the “cedar rust law,” valid as enacted under the police power of the State for the protection of the public interest, as distinguished from the protection of private interests? And is it a valid exercise of such power?
This question must be answered in the affirmative.
The statute involved in these cases, and…
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