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MERCHANTS EXCHANGE v. MISSOURI

No. 116.

248 U.S. 365 (1919)

MERCHANTS EXCHANGE OF ST. LOUIS v. STATE OF MISSOURI AT THE RELATION OF BARKER, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Percy Werner, with whom Mr. Everett W. Pattison was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. John T. Gose, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Missouri, with whom Mr. Frank W. McAllister, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

A statute of Missouri relating to the inspection and weighing of grain, approved March 20, 1913 (Laws, Missouri, 1913, pp. 354-373), and amended March 23, 1915 (Laws, Missouri, 1915, p. 302), declares that in cities of more than 75,000 inhabitants all buildings used for the storage or transferring of grain of different owners, for a compensation, shall be deemed public warehouses; and, by § 63 (p. 372)...

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