Reaves Warehouse Corp. v. Commonwealth

These cases were heard together, and the constitutional questions raised therein are identical. Both of the plaintiffs in error operate tobacco warehouses, and each has been convicted under an act approved March 26, 1923 (Acts extra session 1923, page 129), entitled “an act to require leaf tobacco to be sold only in the name of the true owner thereof; to require records of such sales to be kept; to require the keeper of such records to permit the inspection thereof by any person, and permit access for the purpose of such inspection; and to provide penalty for the violation thereof.” The text…