St. John v. New York

Citations

• 201 U.S. 633
• 26 S. Ct. 554
• 50 L. Ed. 896
• 1906 U.S. LEXIS 1759

Syllabus

<p>A State may classify persons and objects for the purgóse <of legislation, provided the classification is based on proper and justifiable dis- . tinctions; and so held that chap. 338 of the laws of, New York of 1893, prohibiting the sale of adulterated milk, is not in conflict with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because in certain respects, it provides different prohibitions and penalties as to producing and non-producing vendors of milk.</p>