RALSTON v. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE


334 Mass. 51 (1956)

133 N.E.2d 589

FREDERICK R. RALSTON & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 9, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward O. Proctor, (Edward O. Proctor, Jr., with him,) for the plaintiffs.

Fred L. True, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, WILKINS, COUNIHAN, & WHITTEMORE, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

The plaintiffs are in the business of raising, buying, and selling swine in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the course of which they feed garbage to swine. The defendants are respectively commissioner of agriculture and director of live stock disease control for the Commonwealth. The plaintiffs seek a declaratory decree in respect of and an injunction against the enforcement of certain regulations contained...

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