70 N.H. 218
45 A 1080
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided December 5, 1899
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1899-12-05
Indictment, charging the defendant with selling a package of oleomargarine of the same color as yellow butter, in violation of section 1, chapter 115, Laws 1895. Trial by jury and verdict of guilty. The defendant is the agent in this state of Swift & Co., an Illinois corporation engaged in the manufacture of oleomargarine in that state. They ship some of their product to him at Manchester in this county, where he sells it in the original packages as ther agent.
Relies on Plumley v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Collins v. State of New Hampshire · State v. Marshall
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Decided 1899-12-05
Cited by 6 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1942
2 state decisions
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¶1 The statute upon which this indictment is founded is not in conflict with the constitution of tins state (State v. Marshall, 64 N. H. 549); and for the reasons given in State v. Collins, 67 N. H. 540, the federal question is not considered. Plumley v. Massachusetts, 155 U. S. 461; Collins v. New Hampshire, 171 U. S. 30.
¶2 Pxception overruled.