Seaboard Air Line Railway v. North Carolina

Citations

• 245 U.S. 298
• 38 S. Ct. 96
• 62 L. Ed. 299
• 1917 U.S. LEXIS 1738

Syllabus

<p>The power of a State under the Webb-Kenyon Law to forbid shipment into its territory of intoxicating liquor from other States includes the lesser power to prescribe by law the conditions under which such shipments may be allowed.</p> <p>The Webb-Kenyon Law having subjected interstate shipments of intoxicating liquor to state legislation, a state law requiring carriers to keep records of such shipments, open for the inspection of' any officer or citizen, is valid, notwithstanding the prohibition of § 15 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, as amended June. 18,1910, against the divulging of information by interstate carriers.</p>