HEBE CO. v. SHAW

No. 664.

248 U.S. 297 (1919)

THE HEBE COMPANY ET AL. v. SHAW, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE OF OHIO, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. Brode B. Davis, Mr. Thomas E. Lannen and Mr. Augustus T. Seymour were on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Louis D. Johnson and Mr. Charles J. Pretzman, with whom Mr. Joseph McGhee, Attorney General of the State of Ohio, was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity brought to restrain prosecutions threatened against the plaintiffs and their customers for selling a food product of the plaintiffs called Hebe, the bill being based upon the destruction of the plaintiffs' business which it is alleged will ensue. The prosecutions are threatened mainly or wholly under certain statutes of Ohio which, the plaintiffs...

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