Munn v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. The Constitution of Illinois, adopted in 1870, contains the following in reference to the inspection of grain, and the storage thereof in public warehouses : — “ Article XIII. — Warehouses. “ Section 1. All elevators or storeñouses where grain or other property is stored for a compensation, whether the property stored be kept separate or not, are declared to be public warehouses.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. The Constitution of Illinois, adopted in 1870, contains the following in reference to the inspection of grain, and the storage thereof in public warehouses : — “ Article XIII. — Warehouses. “ Section 1. All elevators or storeñouses where grain or other property is stored for a compensation, whether the property stored be kept separate or not, are declared to be public warehouses. “Sect. 2. The owner,lessee,or manager ot each and every public warehouse situated in any town or city of not less than one. hundred thousand inhabitants, shall…
1Opinion of the Court
*123Mr. Chubb Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question to be determined in this case is whether the general assembly of Illinois can, under the limitations upon the legislative power of the States imposed by the Constitution of the United States, fix by law the maximum of charges for the storage of .grain, in warehouses at Chicago and other places in the State having not less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, “ in which grain is stored in bulk, and in which the grain of different owners is mixed together, or in which grain is stored in such a manner that the identity of…
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