C. A. Weed & Co. v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. . This was a suit by a dealer in wearing apparel to enjoin further prosecution under an indictment based on the fourth section of the Pood Control Act. The plaintiff appealed directly from a decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
An indictment having been returned against the appellant in the court below for violating the fourth section of the Lever Act by selling wearing apparel at an unjust or unreasonable rate or charge, it filed its bill in that court praying that the United States Attorney be enjoined from proceeding with the prosecution, assigning, as grounds for the injunction, that the section was void because a regulation of prices of wearing apparel was beyond the power of Congress in the existing state of peace, and because the statute was too vague and deficient in standard to justify a criminal…
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