City of Spokane v. Arnold

The appellant was convicted of a misdemean- or, and fined $25 and costs for violating the provisions of an ordinance of the city of Spokane relative to weights and measures. The facts are stipulated as follows:

On August 19, 1911, appellant sold and delivered within the limits of the city of Spokane to the Home Supply Company, a retail grocery therein, “five bricks or cakes of butter weighing a fraction over fifteen ounces and less than sixteen ounces avoirdupois, net.” That these bricks or cakes were put up in cartons of the size usually used to contain one pound of butter. On each end of the…