City of Spokane v. Arnold
Citations
- 73 Wash. 256
- 131 P. 815
- 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1588
Syllabus
<p>Weights and Measures — Power to Regulate. It is within the general police power of a city to legislate upon the subject of weights and measures to prevent frauds.</p> <p>Weights and Measures — Regulation — Ordinances—Construction. The sale of butter in less than one pound packages is not prohibited by the Spokane city ordinances, where the weight is marked upon the package, in view of § 22, providing that a brick or cake of butter shall contain one pound, net avoirdupois, and §§23 and 25, making it a misdemeanor to sell any package and fail to mark tbereon tke gross and tare or net weight, or to sell by short weights; since it is not made a misdemeanor to sell in less than one pound lots if the weight is marked.</p>
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