In Re Casperson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2006
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on 10 Cal. 2d 160 - Penziner v. West American Finance Co. · People v. . Kibler · Boyd v. Huntington · Mack v. Jastro · 36 Cal. App. 292 - People v. Pera
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““Petitioners further contend that the sale or transfer of eggs between wholesalers, particularly where, as in the present case, the eggs were purchased 'as is’, is not a public offense, even though the eggs may be inedible or mislabeled, in that the 'egg law is strictly a consumers’ law’, and that the argument of respondent which would have required the candling of the eggs in question by petitioners prior to the shipment to the wholesaler, Wilson would have accomplished nothing, as he in turn likewise would have had to candle the eggs before selling them to a retailer. Petitioners then conclude that to so argue is to assume that the legislature intended to place upon wholesalers frivolous and ridiculous burdens, and if this be true, the provision is thereby unreasonable and invalid. We find no merit in this contention. “ * * * It is * * * apparent that the legislature wisely anticipated that the best and most effective method to insure good eggs, properly labeled, was to prohibit all of the enumerated acts in relation to inedible or mislabeled eggs as set forth in said section at every stage from producer to consumer. People v. Wilson & Co., 138 Misc. 440 , 246 N.Y.S. 111 . The act, therefore, is no more a consumers law then it is a producers, a wholesalers, or a retailers law. In other words it is an act designed to keep every phase of the egg business free of inedible and mislabeled eggs.””
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