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KY. WHIP & COLLAR CO. v. I.C.R. CO.

No. 138.

299 U.S. 334 (1937)

KENTUCKY WHIP & COLLAR CO. v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles I. Dawson, with whom Mr. A. Shelby Winstead was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Blakey Helm, with whom Messrs. John C. Doolan, E.C. Craig, and Charles N. Burch were on the brief, for respondent.

Assistant Attorney General Dickinson, with whom Solicitor General Reed and Mr. Hugh B. Cox were on the brief, for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This controversy relates to the constitutional validity of the Act of Congress of July 24, 1935, known as the Ashurst-Sumners Act. 49 Stat. 494.

The Act makes it unlawful knowingly to transport in interstate or foreign commerce goods made by convict labor into any State where the goods are intended to be received, possessed, sold, or used in violation of...

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