Caldwell v. Sioux Falls Stock Yards Co.

Citations

• 242 U.S. 559
• 37 S. Ct. 224
• 61 L. Ed. 493
• 1917 U.S. LEXIS 2156

Syllabus

<p>The South Dakota “Blue Sky Law,” Laws of 1915, c. 275, is the same in principle'as the laws of Ohio and Michigan involved in Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co., ante, 539, and Merrick v. Halsey & Co., post, 568, and is sustained over constitutional objections, for the reasons assigned in those eases, as applied to a Colorado corporation seeking to raise capital by sales of its own shares, and to individuals dealing in such shares.</p> <p>When a statute regulating complainant’s business is alleged to be unconstitutional and its effect, if the business be continued in disregard of it, will be to visit him with repeated criminal prosecutions involving heavy fines and imprisonment, the remedy at law is not adequate.</p> <p>A suit to enjoin state officials from instituting' criminal proceedings in enforcement of such a statute is not a suit against the State.</p>