Mortgage Moratorium Laws Bolich v. Prudential Ins Co. of America – North Carolina, 1932 (164 S.E. 335); Woltz v. Asheville Safe Deposit Co. – North Carolina, 1934 (173 S.E. 587); Williams v. Jones – Virginia, 1935 (182 S.E. 280)
Fair Competition Codes Reynolds v. Milk Commission – Virginia, 1934-35 (179 S.E. 507); Becker v. State – Delaware, 1936 (185 A. 92); Goldsmith v. Mead Johnson & Co. – Maryland, 1939 (7 A.2d 176)
| “Perhaps no court is wise enough to declare with absolute finality that no economic or financial stringency or distress would warrant the intervention of equitable principles in retraining the power of sale … , but certainly the mer allegations of general depression before the property has been sold and an unconscionable purchase price established has not heretofore been deemed adequate to invoke equitable power.” – Justice W.J. Brogden, in Bolich
“If the legislative policy be to curb unrestrained and harmful competition by measures which are not arbitrary or discriminatory it does not lie with the courts to determine that the rule is unwise.” – Justice Herbert Gregory, in Reynolds
“Emergencies or fancied emergencies constantly arise and for the time absorb our attention and we are prone to view them with alarm. … Years of plenty and lean years come down in long procession. Problems that today seem portentous are by the next generation as forgotten as Pharaoh’s famine. … [The law] but gives an odor of sanctity to an act whose plain purpose was to make the production of milk profitable.” – Justice Henry Holt (dissenting), in Reynolds
“There must be a limit to legislative power to regulate and control ordinary occupations and common callings if the constitutional safeguards are to be something more than empty phrases. … Common occupations or employments, harmless and lawful in themselves, not calling for the exercise of any special skill and having no substantial relation to the public health or safety, may be followed without regulation or interference as a matter of common right, for such right constitutes property.” - Justice _, in Becker |
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