OLD DEARBORN DISTRIBUTING CO. v. SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS CORP.

No. 226.

299 U.S. 183 (1936)

OLD DEARBORN DISTRIBUTING CO. v. SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS CORP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Irving Breakstone and Nicholas J. Pritzker for appellant in No. 226.

Mr. Richard Mayer, with whom Messrs. Isaac H. Mayer and Carl Meyer were on the brief, for appellee in No. 226.

Messrs. Stanford Clinton and J. Herzl Segal, with whom Mr. Nicholas J. Pritzker was on the brief, for appellant in No. 372.

Mr. Hamilton Moses, with whom Messrs. Walter Bachrach, Stanley Morris, and Miss R. Weyand were on the brief, for appellee in No. 372.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These appeals bring here for decision the question of the constitutional validity of §§ 1 and 2 of the Fair Trade Act of Illinois (Smith-Hurd Rev. Stat., 1935, c. 121-1/2, § 188 et seq.; Illinois State Bar Stat., 1935, c. 140. § 8 et seq.), providing as follows:

"Section 1. No contract relating to the sale or resale of a commodity which bears, or the label or content...

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