Legal Opinion
People v. Freeman
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1909PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Writ op Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John C. Scovel, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the municipal court of Chicago of a violation of the “act to regulate the manufacture and sale of substitutes for butter,” (Hurd’s Stat. 1908, p. 713,) by keeping for sale oleomargarine, designed as a substitute for 'butter and colored so as to resemble yellow butter, the product of the dairy. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the act under which he was convicted.
The first six sections of the act are as follows:
“Sec. 1. That for the purpose of this act, every article, substitute or compound other than (that)…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Capital City Dairy Co. v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- People v. . ArensbergNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- State v. AddingtonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1882
- Commonwealth v. HuntleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Butler v. Marshall ChambersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
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3Cited by12 opinions
- McDougall v. LuederIllinois Supreme Court · 1945
- People v. WeinerIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
- Lasdon v. HallihanIllinois Supreme Court · 1941
- Koy v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
- Baim v. FleckIllinois Supreme Court · 1950
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