State v. Normand
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from a conviction in the police court of the city of Manchester charging the defendants with a violation of the provisions of chapter 15, Laws of 1911, in not complying with a rule of the state board of health requiring loaves of bread exposed for sale to be wrapped in paper. The case was tried in the superior court without a jury by Wallace, C. J., at the January term, 1912, resulting in a verdict of guilty.
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Appeal, from a conviction in the police court of the city of Manchester charging the defendants with a violation of the provisions of chapter 15, Laws of 1911, in not complying with a rule of the state board of health requiring loaves of bread exposed for sale to be wrapped in paper. The case was tried in the superior court without a jury by Wallace, C. J., at the January term, 1912, resulting in a verdict of guilty. The court found upon the evidence submitted that the rule of the board of health regarding the wrapping of bread is a practicable one and is necessary and reasonable. To this…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
Section 1, chapter 15, Laws 1911, provides: “The existence or maintenance of any unclean, unhealthful, or unsanitary condition or practice in any establishment or place where food is produced, manufactured, stored, or sold, or of any car or vehicle used for the transportation or distribution thereof, is forbidden.” In section 2 it is provided that “unclean, unhealthful, or unsanitary conditions or practices shall be deemed to exist . . . if food in the process of production, storage, sale, or distribution is unnecessarily exposed to flies, dust, or dirt, or to the products of decomposition or…
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