NORTHPORT POW. & L. CO. v. HARTLEY

No. 66.

283 U.S. 568 (1931)

NORTHPORT POWER & LIGHT CO. v. HARTLEY, GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. O.C. Moore, with whom Mr. W. Lon Johnson was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. John H. Dunbar, Attorney General of Washington, and John A. Homer, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a bill in equity to enjoin the appellees from bringing or causing to be brought a suit for enforcing against the appellant Section 33, Article II of the Constitution of the State of Washington and an Act of 1921 in pursuance of the same, it being alleged that the Section and Act are repugnant to the commerce and contract clauses of the Constitution of the United...

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