Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP NEBRASKA. Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Nebraska affirming a decree dismissing a suit brought by bakers and sellers of bread against state officials to restrain enforcement of a statute regulating the weights of loaves.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP NEBRASKA. Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Nebraska affirming a decree dismissing a suit brought by bakers and sellers of bread against state officials to restrain enforcement of a statute regulating the weights of loaves. Laws fixing specific weights for loaves of bread are construed to be only against short weights, and do not prohibit greater weights than the standards provided, People v. Wagner, 86 Mich. 594; State v. Huber, 4 Boyce, 259; Allion v. Toledo, 99 Oh. St. 416; Chicago v. Schmid-.inger, 243 Ill. 167; Schmidinger v. Chicago,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
An act of the legislature of Nebraska, approved March 31,1921 (Laws 1921, c. 2, p. 56)1 provides that every loaf of bread made for the purpose of sale, or offered for sale, or sold, shall be one-half pound, one pound, a pound and a half, or exact multiples of one pound, and prohibits loaves of other weights. It allows a tolerance in excess of the specified standard weights at the rate of two ounces per pound *511and no more, and requires that the specified weight shall be the average weight of not less than 25 loaves, and that such average shall not be more than the maximum nor less than the…
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