Commonwealth v. Tetley Tea Co.

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• holding that the procedures involved in processing and packaging loose tea into specially designed bags did not make it a new and different product as “[t]he process, starts and ends with tea.”
• separating tea from foreign matter does not result in a new and different product
• separating tea from foreign matter does not result in a new and different product
• removal of impurities or foreign matter from a substance does not result in a new and different product
• removal of impurities or foreign matter from a substance does not result in a new and different product
• tea which was separated, blended and placed in filtered bags still tea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Solite Corp. v. County of King George
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-01-11· cited 46×
• Golden Triangle Broadcasting, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-09-12· cited 18×
• Stewart Honeybee Products, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Board of Finance & Revenue
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-12· cited 14×
• City of Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh Press Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Babcock Lumber Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-11· cited 7×
• DS Waters of America, Inc. v. Commonwealth of PA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-30· cited 6×
• Morrisville Scrap Processing Co., Inc. Tax Appeal
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-07-12· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Perfect Photo, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-07· cited 5×
• Stewart Honeybee Products, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-08· cited 4×
• Stewart Honeybee Products, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-15· cited 4×
• Hawes v. Institutional Packers of America, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-02-14
• Commonwealth v. Rudd-Melikian, Inc.
  Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas· 1966-11-21
• Fairfax County v. DataComp Corp.
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1995-02-22

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lowry-Rodgers Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1924-02-11· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Berlo Vending Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 41×
• Philadelphia School District v. Parent Metal Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-01-04· cited 34×
• Edwin Bell Cooperage Co. v. Pittsburgh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-03-24· cited 6×

Other cases named Commonwealth v. Tetley Tea Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Commonwealth v. Tetley Tea Co.
  Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas· 1966-01-10