State v. North American Creamery Co.

Counsel

Peterson, Jackson, Brist and Sullivan, Hanley, Sullivan, for appellant. "It is inherent in the powers of the state to protect one citizen against the `unfair competition' of another citizen where such unfair competition is used as a means to and with the intent to deprive such other of his rightful enjoyment of property or the use thereof." State v. Central Lumber Co. 24 S.D. 136 , 123 N.W. 504. "Practices may obtain which contravene no statute, and which, nevertheless, would be deemed as morally dishonest and detrimental to the public interest." 26 L.R.A. 42. George F. Shafer, Attorney General, and J.P. Cain and W.C. Crawford, for respondent. "There is a strong presumption that a legislature understands and correctly appreciates the needs of its own people; that its laws are directed to problems made manifest by experience, and that its discriminations are based upon adequate grounds." State v. Fairmont Creamery Co. 162 Minn. 146 , 202 N.W. 714 . "Within constitutional limits the legislature is the sole judge as to what laws should be enacted for the protection and welfare of the people and as to when and how the police power of the state is to be exercised." State v. Drayton, 23 L.R.A.(N.S.) 1287, 117 N.W. 768.