Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Co. v. Worst
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NORTH DAKOTA. This is a direct appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of North Dakota, sustaining the constitutionality of a statute of that State, requiring the manufacturers of mixed paints to label the ingredients composing them. The statute is as follows: “An Act to prevent the adulteration of and deception in the sale of white lead and mixed paints.
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APPEAL FROM THE' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NORTH DAKOTA. This is a direct appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of North Dakota, sustaining the constitutionality of a statute of that State, requiring the manufacturers of mixed paints to label the ingredients composing them. The statute is as follows: “An Act to prevent the adulteration of and deception in the sale of white lead and mixed paints. “Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of-the State of North Dakota: 1. Every person, firm or corporation who manufactures 'or sale or exposes for sale, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
It appears from the evidence that the statute which is assailed by appellants was one, among others, passed to prevent the adulteration of articles or to provide for the publication of their composition. ’ That both purposes are within the com-. petency of the State can hardly be denied. A discrimination is, however, asserted to have been made in the exercise of the power, with the following results: (1) The imposition of the burden- of analyzing and labelling the ingredients of mixed paints, from which burden the manufacturers of paste paint and manufacturers of mixed paints containing only…
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