State v. Hutchinson Ice Cream Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. H. McHenry, Judge. Two informations were filed by a state food and dairy commissioner before a justice of the peace in the two cases, one against the Hutchinson Ice Cream Company and C. J. Hutchinson, Manager, and the other against Sanders Ice Cream Company and L. E. Sanders, President.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. H. McHenry, Judge. Two informations were filed by a state food and dairy commissioner before a justice of the peace in the two cases, one against the Hutchinson Ice Cream Company and C. J. Hutchinson, Manager, and the other against Sanders Ice Cream Company and L. E. Sanders, President. The defendants were accused of the crime of selling, exchanging, delivering, and having in possession with intent to sell, exchange and expose and offer for sale and exchange, adulterated food, in violation of Chapter 166, Laws of the 31st General Assembly, as amended…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
I. One of the objections to the statute on which this prosecution is based is that the act is invalid for noneomplianee with Sec. 29, Article 3, of the Constitution of Iowa, in that its subject was not expressed in the title. This constitutional provision, or that part of it relating to the points raised in this case, is that, “Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title.”
Chapter 166, Acts of the Thirty-first General Assembly (Code Supp., Secs. 4999-al5 to 4999-a30), was an act to prevent the adulteration of…
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