Price v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. ' The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Pure Food Statute of Illinois of 1907, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
delivered the opinion .of the court.
This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Illinois, which affirmed a judgment of the Municipal Court of Chicago, finding the plaintiff in error guilty of a violation of the ‘Pure Food’ statute of that' State and imposing a fine. 257 Illinois, 587.
The violation consisted of a sale in Chicago of a preservative compound known as ‘Mrs. Price’s Canning Compound’ alleged to be intended as a ‘preservative of . food’ and to be ‘unwholesome and injurious in that it contained boric acid.’
The statute (Laws of Illinois, 1907, p. 543, §§ 8 and…
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