Kugler v. City of Milwaukee

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to a complaint. According to the complaint the plaintiff is a grocer licensed under sec. 98.12, Stats., to sell soda-water beverages. Soda-water contains a trace of alcohol, stated as 1 to 1791 by volume. The city has an ordinance requiring a person selling non-intoxicating liquor to procure a' license, and soda-water is a non-intoxicating *253liquor within the terms of the ordinance. The ordinance imposes a penalty for each sale made without procuring a license. The plaintiff has not procured a license from the city and the defendants…