Puget Sound Warehouse Co. v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 58 Wash. 322
• 108 P. 955
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 936

Syllabus

<p>Inspection—Grain—Statutes—Construction—Tax for Inspection. The grain, inspection law, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5980 et seq., entitled an act for the regulation of public warehouses, relating to the shipping, grading and inspection of grain, and defining the duties of railroads, warehousemen, etc., was designed to protect the owner or shipper of grain from frauds practiced by public ware-housemen, and is not broad enough to cover the inspection of grain shipped by an owner to himself, the same not being stored in a public warehouse.</p> <p>Same—Constitutional Law—Police Power. A tax for the inspection of grain shipped by the owner to himself cannot be sustained by reference to the police power, where the same was not to go through a public warehouse.</p>