Grosvenor v. Duffy
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Washtenaw; Kinne, J. Mandamus by Elliot O. Grosvenor, dairy and food commissioner, to compel John L. Duffy, a justice of the peace, to issue a warrant for an alleged violation of the pure-food law. From an order denying the writ, relator brings certiorari.
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Certiorari to Washtenaw; Kinne, J. Mandamus by Elliot O. Grosvenor, dairy and food commissioner, to compel John L. Duffy, a justice of the peace, to issue a warrant for an alleged violation of the pure-food law. From an order denying the writ, relator brings certiorari. The relator presented to a justice of the peace a complaint in writing, charging that: “Caspar Rinsey did unlawfully offer and expose for sale, and did unlawfully sell and deliver to said Elliot O. Grosvenor, a large quantity, to wit, one pound, of oleomargarine, which was then and there an article of food intended to be eaten…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the facts). The title of the act reads:
“An act to prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud, and deception in the manufacture and sale of articles of food and drink.”
Section 3, as amended by Act No. 118, Pub. Acts 1897, so far as it applies to this case, reads:
“An article shall be deemed to be adulterated, within the meaning of this act: * * * Fourth, if it is an *222imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article; * * * sixth, if it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of…
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