Indictment, for selling a package of oleomargarine not of a pink color, in violation of P. S., c. 127, ss. 19, 20. Verdict, guilty. The defendant is an agent at Manchester of Swift & Co., an Illinois corporation. The corporation manufacture oleomargarine in that state, and put it up in packages, some of which they send to the defendant in Manchester; who sells it in the original packages. The prosecution is for making a sale of that character.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1893-12-05
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1974
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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The need of a uniform operation of federal law in all the states, and the apparent degree of uncertainty as to the view the federal court may take of the statute upon which the prosecution is based
(Leisy
v. Hardin, 135 U. S. 100,
Bowman
v. Railway, 125 U. S. 490,
In re
Worthen, 58 Fed. Rep. 467,
State
v. Marshall, 64 N. H. 549, 551,
Powell
v. Pennsylvania, 127 U. S. 678, 685,
Boston Beer Co.
v. Massachusetts, 97 U. S. 25), are reasons for a disposition of the case that will furnish an opportunity to obtain a determination of the question by the federal court, by which alone it can be finally settled.
