| Show ClOo ItI 1 iW fj II II II tip 1111 ilK I tie Vol lii ity Washington toll Nov United Supreme Io rl today render 1 an n In the CUt as of ef Wit RI n It Ittin u utin tin vs t the he Stale or of InvolvIng Ing th validity of the It state ate law re regu ll biting the sale Ot of cigarettes The Tue law lawus us attacked as AI all an ot of till th tight or of to 0 litter Mill I The court 1 the law lal and nd aus that verdict though not without dl ot of seine lorne of the Positions tak n land end then upon a very el margin tour four out or of nine members join jilin lug In a dissenting opinIon and Another of the court Justice White While hI his upon grounds dart differ Int from those announced by a who down the opinion The case Call grew out o of the ImportAtion of Into Tenn Tennessee from North larol Carolina na They we were taken Into the State in Ih the sized cigarette packages about two by tour four inches and thee were loosely thrown Into which w were un cov red The claim was Willi made matle that theve Ihl cigarette were whet is known to th the lat as original package but without clearly defining an net nal package e the court held that It wu was clear that such could not b 51 80 Justice Brown Uron In upon the tho tholie lie ease said laid that the prick were wert oh nh made lOade uit WWI with the view ot of eval elt eltIn In ing the tue Ja law an am u as h he spoke he one Ot of the littI cigarette disco up to view or of his hili audItorS On this point th the decision ot of the state court to the et t feet lint lh the were not nat original nul nal wal fi fully On lIther nother phase of at the ease IAH the state ourt wa not so 10 tull fully Indorsed The court hAd held that lIart lIea Ati afe not nol au an article of corn fierce merrl With Qua view Justice Drown tOOk look iii ht delivered quite a dt dis upon lite ike subject Whatever Is II nn abject or of barter Ana AnaBal sal Bal I is lie he said saki an n article or of com coni merce and must b be so 0 recognized To had been such In an article for tor 40 oo years It had been made the subject lit or taxation and 1111 indeed had tI become come more widely than nn tiny other e vegetable he no other vegetable lies nas so much to the comfort and solace ot of the human race This I hilI being the cese It was entirety entirely beyond bounds to say MY that tobacco was not An article of corn com merce lie then took notice pollee or hI claim that cigarettes are an n especially harmful form torm of tobacco and while h he that might be the c case he re remarked marked that hat this claim WI was ot of coni recent origin TIe lie held that are alf all as much a state Itt regula lUla tin R liquor and he lurther held that tha while no state jaw liw could prohibit bin in III original packages It win comPetent for tor II a tu to th the sale because of be lid In the e effect ot of the ar tide There was t is dl opinion by Ahle Shiras In which the chief Ju jus lice end Justices Brewer antI nil Peckham joined Th They baled hae their dissent on the thor that oll ha baa exclusIve control of at commerce |
