A. M. Holter Hardware Co. v. Boyle
District Court, D. Montana
In Equity. Suit by the A. M. Holter Hardware Company and others against Daniel Boyle and others.
1Opinion of the Court
BOURQUIN, District Judge.
This is a conventional suit to restrain enforcement of state legislation which provides for a trade commission to regulate business, and when and where it pleaseth to “establish maximum prices or a reasonable margin of profit” in respect to all commodities, and, curiously enough, burial lots in cemeteries for gain. The usual defenses of state immunity from suit, premature action, and adequate -remedy at law are foreclosed by familiar decisions of the Court.
[1] Plaintiffs’ principal and determinative contention is that legislative regulation of prices in ordinary…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Buchanan v. WarleySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- German Alliance Insurance v. LewisSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Wilson v. NewSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
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