Nash v. Page
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 100 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The selling of tobacco at auction at tobacco warehouses is a business-affecting the public interests, and appellees, in carrying it on, are-under duties and obligations, by common law and by statute, to carry it on in a way that is reasonable a.nd beneficial to the tobacco trade, and therefore they cannot discriminate or exclude buyers or-sellers, except on reasonable grounds. (1 Bl.
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Case 100 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The selling of tobacco at auction at tobacco warehouses is a business-affecting the public interests, and appellees, in carrying it on, are-under duties and obligations, by common law and by statute, to carry it on in a way that is reasonable a.nd beneficial to the tobacco trade, and therefore they cannot discriminate or exclude buyers or-sellers, except on reasonable grounds. (1 Bl. Com., 138; 37 .Iowa-145; 10 Met., Mass., 475; 12 Pick., 477; 12 Cushing, 477; 1 Daly, 547; 62 Maine, 214; 6 Wis., 546; 12 East., 527; 69 111., 91; 4…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered ti-ie opinion op the court.
This is a controversy between the proprietors of ten of the tobacco warehouses in the city of Louisville and the appellants (twenty-seven in number), who are large dealers in tobacco, and licensed by the United States and the city ■government, with authority to purchase and sell leaf and manufactured tobacco. .
It seems that these appellants were denied the right to make purchases of tobacco at the warehouses of which the *541defendants are the proprietors, and they applied to the-chancellor for an injunction, asking that these warehouse-men be…
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