Legal Opinion
Ralston v. Commissioner of Agriculture
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 9, 1956PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
The plaintiffs are in the business of raising, buying, and selling swine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the course of which they feed garbage to swine. The defendants are respectively commissioner of agriculture and director of live stock disease control for the Commonwealth. The plaintiffs seek a declaratory decree in respect of and an injunction against the enforcement of certain regulations contained in Order No. 52 promulgated by the defendants and approved in council January 27, 1955. The agreed facts state that there is a controversy between the parties as to whether the order…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Mastrullo v. RyanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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3Cited by8 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. LysMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
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