American Sugar Refining Co. v. McFarland
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
In Equity. Suit by the American Sugar Refining Company against William N. McFarland and others. On application by complainant for an interlocutory injunction. Injunction granted.
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In Equity. Suit by the American Sugar Refining Company against William N. McFarland and others. On application by complainant for an interlocutory injunction. Injunction granted. This cause came on to be heard on the application of complainant for an interlocutory injunction during the pendency of the suit at this term and was argued by counsel, and therenpon, upon consideration thereof, and for the written reasons on file, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed as follows, via.: That the defendants, and each of them, be and they are hereby enjoined and restrained, during the pendency of this…
1Per curiam
[1] This suit brings into question the validity of an act of the Legislature of Louisiana, approved June 10, 1915, which purports to regulate the business of refining sugar and to prohibit certain irregularities and practices in that business.
“Unless the Legislature may arbitrarily select one corporation or one class of corporations, one individual or one class of individuals, and visit a penalty upon them which is not imposed upon others guilty of like delinquency this statute cannot be sustained. * * * Arbitrary selection can never be justified, by calling it classification. The equal…
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- Scovill v. ThayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Watson v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
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