Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Yeomans
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 24, 1937No. 781PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This suit was brought by tobacco warehousemen to restrain the enforcement of a statute of Georgia, approved March 28, 1935, fixing maximum charges for handling and selling leaf tobacco. Ga. L. 1935, pp. 476-8.
The statute was assailed as an arbitrary and capricious exercise of state power, repugnant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, and as placing a direct burden upon interstate commerce in violation of the commerce clause. The hearing in the District Court was by three judges (28 U. S. C. 380) and, upon findings of fact and conclusions of law, a final decree was entered…
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3Cited by112 opinions
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