Council of Farmville v. Walker
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Priuce Edward county, pronounced in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Legislature, at the extra session in 1901, passed an act entitled “An act to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Earniwile Magisterial District, Prince Ec¡*324ward county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms, corpora-, tions to sell, barter, or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said magisterial district.”
The first section of the act makes the sale of intoxicating liquors of any kind in Barmville district, except as therein provided, a…
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