Department of Farms & Markets v. Swift & Co.

This is an action for a permanent injunction in which it is sought to restrain the defendant from selling cold storage eggs in- the state of New York unless the same are stamped with the words “ cold storage ” or their equivalent, as provided by the rules and regulations of the department of farms and markets. The defendant contends that the requirements of the New York law have been suspended or superseded for the duration of the war by the operation of the federal statutes for the control of food supplies. So far as material to the controversy herein, the local provisions covering the…