State v. Newton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The plaintiff in certiorari was charged with having in his possession, for the purposes of sale, on May *54418th, 1887, in Jersey City, “ oleomargarine which was colored and stained yellow in imitation of natural butter, by one of the ingredients thereof, to wit, cotton-seed oil, with which the same was mixed and compounded.” To this he pleaded, in effect, that cotton-seed oil is a nutritious vegetable oil; that it formed about one-fifth of the product called oleomargarine, and was used in the manufacture, not simply for the purpose of coloring or…