Sheppard v. Dowling
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dale. Tried before the Hon. A. A. Evans. • On the 29th day of November, 1899, the appellant, W. M. Sheppard, filed in the office of the probate judge of Dale county, an application, in all respects as directed by law, for a license to sell liquors for the year 1900, at Pinckard, and this petition and recommendation remained on file in that office until January 1st, 1900, when appellant went before the .appellee as probate judge of Dale county…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Dale. Tried before the Hon. A. A. Evans. • On the 29th day of November, 1899, the appellant, W. M. Sheppard, filed in the office of the probate judge of Dale county, an application, in all respects as directed by law, for a license to sell liquors for the year 1900, at Pinckard, and this petition and recommendation remained on file in that office until January 1st, 1900, when appellant went before the .appellee as probate judge of Dale county and tendered to him the requisite amount of money for license money, fees, etc., offered proof of the genuineness of…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, C. J.
On this appeal are presented for consideration the constitutionality and the construction and operation of the act of February 18, 1899, (Acts of 1898-99, p. 108), commonly known as “The Dispensary Law.” The title of the act is this: “To authorize municipal and other subdivisions of the State tp buy and sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, and to further regulate or prohibit the sale of such liquors.” In the body of the act provision is made for the carrying on of the business of selling .such liquors by towns, cities- and counties, and the sale of liquors in the territory to which the…
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