Wofford Oil Co. v. Smith
District Court, M.D. Alabama
In Equity. Suit by the Wofford Oil Company against J. Q. Smith, Attorney General of Alabama, and others. On application for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY D. CRAYTON, District Judge.
The plaintiff, an Alabama corporation, having its principal place of business at Birmingham, in that state, brings this bill against the state officers charged with the execution of the law here questioned, to enjoin the operation of the act of the Legislature of Alabama passed September 27, 1919, and approved by the Governor on the 29th day of that month, upon the grounds: (1) that the act is repugnant to the commerce clause, section 8, art. 1, of the Constitution of the United States; and (2) that in its passage the Legislature transcended section 70 of the…
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