Aguiar & Bello v. Brock

COSGRAVE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, being some 300 owners of dairy cattle in Merced County, seek in this action to enjoin the enforcement of the California Tuberculosis Eradication Act contained in Sections 221 to 254, inclusive, of the State Agricultural Code, St.Cal. 1933, pp. 97-105. Agricultural Code of California, page 50. They complain that under authority of the act in question the defendants, who are the officers of the State charged with the enforcement of the act, have proclaimed the whole county of Merced to be a control area, and threaten to carry out the provisions of the act,…