CLOVERLEAF CO. v. PATTERSON

No. 28.

315 U.S. 148 (1942)

CLOVERLEAF BUTTER CO. v. PATTERSON, COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES OF ALABAMA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 2, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Erle Pettus and Horace C. Wilkinson for petitioner.

Messrs. Charles L. Rowe and William H. Loeb, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause, and Mr. Thomas S. Lawson, Attorney General, and Mr. Loeb were on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner, Cloverleaf Butter Company, is engaged at Birmingham, Alabama, in the manufacture of process or renovated butter from packing stock butter. It obtains 25% of its supplies of packing stock butter from the farmers and country merchants of Alabama and 75% from those of other states, and it ships interstate 90% of its finished product. The production of renovated...

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