State ex rel. Pettigrew v. Hall
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Application by the state, on the relation of Pettigrew and others, for writs of certiorari and. prohibition to L. E. Hall, judge.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Relators were proceeded against by information under section 12 of Act No. 49 of 1894, imposing a penalty upon itinerant venders of drugs, nostrums, etc. They by motion to quash assailed the constitutionality of the act as a whole, and of section 12 in particular, on the grounds, as to the act itself, that it embraces more than one subject, and, as to section 12, that its object is not expressed in the title of the act of which it forms a part, and that it contravenes the provisions of the federal constitution in that it regulates interstate commerce and is class legislation.
The motion to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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