INGELS v. MORF

No. 456.

300 U.S. 290 (1937)

INGELS, DIRECTOR OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE DEPARTMENT, ET AL. v. MORF ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Frank Richards and Amos M. Mathews, with whom Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General of California, and Mr. James S. Howie were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. Ralph K. Pierson and Byron J. Walters, with whom Mr. Samuel P. Block was on the brief, for appellees.

By leave of Court, Mr. Frank P. Doherty filed a brief on behalf of Asher & Ponder, a co-partnership, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance of the decree below.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by appellee in the District Court for Southern California, three judges sitting, to restrain appellants, state officers, from enforcing the provisions of the "Caravan" Act, Cal. Stat. 1935, c. 402, as a forbidden burden on interstate commerce, and as an infringement of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. From a decree granting the relief prayed, the case...

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