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American Seeding MacHine Co. v. Kentucky

236 U.S. 660, 35 S. Ct. 456, 59 L. Ed. 773, 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1721
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
DecidedMarch 15, 1915
Docket175
StatusPublished
Cited by13 cases

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American Seeding MacHine Co. v. Kentucky, 236 U.S. 660, 35 S. Ct. 456, 59 L. Ed. 773, 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1721 (1915).

Opinion

Memorandum opinion by

Mr. Justice McKenna,

by direction of the court.

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of Barren County, Kentucky, and fined for alleged violation of §§ 3915 and 3941 of the Kentucky laws commonly known as the Kentucky Anti-trust Statutes, and prosecutes this writ to review the judgment.

The grounds of error assigned are: (1) That the statutes in question are in conflict .with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; (2) That the particular transactions involved were transactions of interstate commerce and protected from state regulation by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States.

These grounds were presented to the lower court first by demurrer, which was overruled, and, after answer and trial to a jury, by a request for peremptory instructions for defendant.

The sections of the laws of Kentucky referred to were declared to.be invalid by this court under the Fourteenth Amendment because they, as construed by the Court of *662 Appeals of the State, offered no standard of conduct that it is possible to know. International Harvester Co. v. Kentucky, 234 U. S. 216. Therefore, the judgment of conviction against plaintiff in error must be reversed.

It is not necessary to pass on any other question.

Judgment reversed.

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236 U.S. 660, 35 S. Ct. 456, 59 L. Ed. 773, 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1721, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/american-seeding-machine-co-v-kentucky-scotus-1915.