State v. Pabst Brewing Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Proceeding hy the State of Louisiana against the Pabst Brewing Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPr Ovo Sty, J.
The state sues to recover of the defendant, the Pabst Brewing Company, of Milwaukee, Wis., a retail liquor license for each of the years 1908, 1909, and 1910.
The defendant brings its beer into this-state in cases containing less than five gallons, and sells it here in the same original packages, unbroken. The sales are made from a warehouse, and indiscriminately to consumers and dealers. [1] A state' cannot tax interstate commerce. Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 419, 6 L. Ed. 678. [2] And defendant’s business, consisting as it does of importing and selling in the original packages, is clearly…
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