<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> U.S. Const . amend . XIV </Td> </Tr> <P> Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. (4 Otto) 113 (1876) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries . </P> <P> The case was developed because in 1871, the legislature of Illinois responded to pressure from the National Grange, an association of farmers, by setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products . The Chicago grain warehouse firm of Munn and Scott was found guilty of violating the law but appealed the conviction on the grounds that the law was an unconstitutional deprivation of property without due process of law that violated the Fourteenth Amendment . </P>

The supreme court case of munn v. illinois decided that
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