HERRON v. ARKANSAS WHOLESALE GROCERS ASS'N

No. 5-1102.

296 S.W.2d 409 (1956)

Dr. J. T. HERRON, Director of the Arkansas State Board of Health, Appellant, v. ARKANSAS WHOLESALE GROCERS ASSOCIATION, Inc., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 17, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Gentry, Atty. Gen, James L. Sloan, Asst. Atty. Gen, for appellant.

Talley & Owen and William L. Blair, Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a suit by the wholesale grocers' association to enjoin the director of the State Board of Health from enforcing a regulation which prohibits the sale of artificially colored potatoes. The chancellor held that the applicable statute is too indefinite to be enforceable; he also found that artificially colored potatoes are not poisonous or otherwise injurious to health. Upon these findings the court enjoined the appellant from interfering...

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