Coffee-Rich, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture

This is an appeal from the Wayne county circuit court. Plaintiffs-appellees prevailed in that court. Cause was heard by judge without jury.

Plaintiffs-appellees are a Delaware corporation doing business in Michigan and a restaurant owner who served its food product. Defendants-appellants are the Michigan department of agriculture and two of its officials. The issues were accurately stated at the trial level in trial court’s pretrial statement:

“This is an action for a declaration of rights and to enjoin the enforcement hy defendants of PA 1961, No 235, as applied to plaintiffs’ product…