Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Apr-14-1924
Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan - 264 U.S. 504 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan, 264 U.S. 504 (1924) Jay Burns Baking Company v. Bryan No. 94 Argued October 19, 1923 Decided April 14, 1924 264 U.S. 504 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA Syllabus 1. The power of a state to protect the public from imposition by sale of short-weight loaves of bread cannot be exerted in such a way as arbitrarily to prohibit or interfere with, or impose unreasonable Page 264 U. S. 505 and unnecessary restrictions upon, the business of making and selling it. P. 264 U. S. 513 . 2. It is the duty of the court to determine whether a regulation challenged under the Constitution has a reasonable relation to, and a real tendency to accomplish, the purpose for which it was enacted. Id. 3. A statute of Nebraska prescribes the minimum weights of loaves of bread to be made or offered for sale in the state, and, in order to prevent the palming off of smaller for ...
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