U.S. Supreme Court TOWNSEND v. YEOMANS, 301 U.S. 441 (1937)

[Page 301 U.S. 441, 459]

Shafer v. Farmers' Grain Company, 268 U.S. 189, 45 S.Ct. 481, as the statute subjected the buying for interstate shipment to conditions and a measure of control which caused a direct interference with interstate commerce.

Here, the Georgia act lays no constraint upon purchases in interstate commerce, does not attempt to fix the prices or conditions of purchases, or the profit of the purchasers. It simply seeks to protect the tobacco growers from unreasonable charges of the warehousemen for their services to the growers in handling and selling the tobacco for their account. Whatever relation these transactions had to interstate and foreign commerce, the effect is merely incidental and imposes no direct burden upon that commerce. The state is entitled to afford its industry this measure of protection until its requirement is superseded by valid federal regulation. The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.

Affirmed. Footnotes

Footnote 1 See Report of the House Committee on Agriculture, H.R.Rep. No. 1102, 74th Cong., 1st sess.; Report of Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Sen.Rep. No. 1211, 74th Cong., 1st sess.

Footnote 2 See Note 1.