MAYO v. CANNING CO.

No. 270.

309 U.S. 310 (1940)

MAYO, COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE OF FLORIDA, ET AL. v. LAKELAND HIGHLANDS CANNING CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. William C. Pierce and O.K. Reaves, with whom Messrs. George Couper Gibbs, Attorney General of Florida, and H.E. Carter, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. G.L. Reeves, with whom Mr. John B. Sutton was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellees, corporations of Florida and other States, and individuals, engaged in the canning of citrus fruits in that State, filed their bill in the District Court for Southern Florida against Nathan Mayo, as Commissioner of Agriculture of Florida, praying injunctions, temporary and final, to restrain him from cancelling their licenses as citrus fruit dealers, from...

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