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PEETE v. MORGAN

86 U.S. 581 (____)

19 Wall. 581

PEETE v. MORGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P. Phillips, for Morgan, the appellee; no counsel appearing for the health officer, Peete, the appellant.

Mr. Justice DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court.

That the power to establish quarantine laws rests with the States, and has not been surrendered to the General government is settled in Gibbons v. Ogden. The source of this power is in the acknowledged right of a State to provide for the health of its people, and although this power when set in motion may in a greater or less degree affect commerce, yet the laws passed in the exercise of this power are not enacted...

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