Townsend v. Yeomans

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1937-05-24

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Me. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the Court. This suit was brought by tobacco warehousemen to restrain the enforcement of a statute of Georgia, approved March 28, 1935, fixing maximum charges for handling and selling leaf tobacco. Ga. L. 1935, pp. 476-8. The statute was assailed as an arbitrary and capricious exercise of…

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