Shreveport Drug Co. v. Jackson

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Complainant had its permit to dispense intoxicants as a druggist revoked by the prohibition director, and has filed a bill in equity, pursuant to the provisions of the Volstead Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 1013814 et seq.), to have the ruling reviewed by this court. At the threshold, and preliminarily to the trial, the parties have submitted the question of whether, in such a proceeding, the court should try the matter de novo, or merely review the finding of the Commissioner upon the record which he made up.

The manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicants…