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JACOB RUPPERT v. CAFFEY

No. 603.

251 U.S. 264 (1920)

JACOB RUPPERT, A CORPORATION, v. CAFFEY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elihu Root and Mr. William D. Guthrie, with whom Mr. William L. Marbury was on the briefs, for appellant:

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

By the Act of August 10, 1917, c. 53, § 15, 40 Stat. 276, 282, a war measure known as the Lever Act, Congress prohibited the use after September 9, 1917, of food materials or feeds in the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes and authorized the President to limit or prohibit their use in the production of malt or vinous liquors for beverage purposes...

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