State v. Latham
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Indictment returned at Superior Court, Cumberland county for violation of chapter 32, Public Laws of Maine, 1915, said statute relating to the methods of payment to the producers of milk or cream by any firm or person purchasing same for the purposes of re-selling or manufacturing the milk or cream thus purchased. P.espondent filed demurrer to said indictment. Indictment adjudged good; to which ruling, respondent filed exceptions. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, C. J.
The respondent stands indicted for a violation of chapter 32 of the Public Laws of 1915, and the case comes to this *177court on exceptions to the overruling of his demurrer to the indictment.
The statute in question reads as follows: “Every person, firm or corporation purchasing cream or milk for the purposes of reselling or manufacturing the same into other products, shall pay the producer, unless otherwise provided for by written contract, semimonthly ; payment to be made on the first day of each and every month for all cream or milk received prior to the fifteenth day of the preceding month,…
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