Arden Farms Co. v. City of Seattle

An ordinance (ordinance No. 53002, § 7, subd. “m.”) of the city of Seattle prohibits the sale of milk which has had the cream line increased by any artificial means. Arden Farms Company, a foreign corporation, was directed by the commissioner of health of the city of Seattle to discontinue sale of milk to which it had added homogenized cream, which deepened the cream line of the Arden Farms Company’s product. Thereupon, the Arden Farms Company brought this action to permanently enjoin the city of Seattle and its commissioner of health from interfering with plaintiff’s distribution and sale of…