Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1847
License Cases - 46 U.S. 504 (1847) U.S. Supreme Court License Cases, 46 U.S. 5 How. 504 504 (1847) License Cases 46 U.S. (5 How.) 504 ERROR TO VARIOUS COURTS Syllabus Laws of Massachusetts, providing that no person shall presume to be a retailer or seller of wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors in a less quantity than twenty-eight gallons, and that delivered and carried away all at one time, unless he is first licensed as a retailer of wine and spirits, and that nothing in the law should be so construed as to require the county commissioners to grant any licenses when in their opinion the public good does not require them to be granted -- Of Rhode Island, forbidding the sale of rum, gin, brandy &c.;, in a less quantity than ten gallons, although in this case the brandy which was sold was duly imported from France into the United States, and purchased by the party indicted in the original importer -- Of New Hampshire, imposing similar restrictions to the foregoing up...
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